Rośliny lecznicze z komponentem kolorystycznym w polskim i niemieckim językowym obrazie świata
Medical Plants with Colour Terms in the Polish and German Picture of the World

Summary/Abstract: In the paper I focus on the problem of a contrastive description of medicinal plants with colour terms in the Polish and German linguistic picture of the world. The article discusses the question of what people think about the world and its elements on the base of herbs. Colours in the botanical nomenclature express some social contents, they are signs, have value and convey information about reality in two languages. They result from a complex set of circumstance e.g. traditions, habits, ways of life, experiences and the mentality of Poles and Germans. The contrastive description demonstrates also that the most plants have in both languages the names with ‘white’ and ‘black’.

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