Semantyka przestrzeni miejskich w aspekcie relacji interpersonalnych. Cz. 1. Czynniki konfliktotwórcze
The semantics of urban spaces in the light of interpersonal relations. Part 1. Conflict factors.

Contributor(s): Piotr Czerwiński (Editor), Maciej Walczak (Editor)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language studies, Language and Literature Studies, Sociology, Rural and urban sociology
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: semantics; urban spaces; city; conflict; hipermarket; park; neighbors
Summary/Abstract: In the present monograph, the authors attempt to reconstruct not so much the image of a city itself in the mind of its contemporary inhabitants, but rather on the basis of the analysis of linguistic data regarding some typical urban objects, and typical for them situations, they try to indirectly reconstruct the image of urban space in the mind of contemporary Polish or/and Russian language speakers by means of describing the ideas concerning selected typically urban spatial objects (e.g. parks, megastores, a housing estate, a block of flats). The point of departure has been the compilation of language data and on its basis, the specification of the so-called category of the sensitive. The authors introduce this term to denote some inner, mental, psychological experiences and states that the inhabitants of a city, who are simultaneously the speakers of the languages under inspection, feel (sometimes unconsciously), when they speak or think about these objects (referred to as loci in the book). This, in turn, is reflected in how the inhabitants talk about these objects and typical/atypical situations connected with them. Due to a kind of interdisciplinarity and multidimensionality of the problems in question, encompassing not merely linguistic issues, the monograph may be of interest to the representatives of various academic disciplines – sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, and philosophers.

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