Między innością a obcością – o językowych granicach w(y)kluczenia
Between otherness and foreignness – about linguistic borders of exclusion

Author(s): Agnieszka Jedziniak
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego
Keywords: otherness; foreignness; semantics; associative fields; borders of exclusion
Summary/Abstract: The subject of the article is the relation between the concepts the other and the foreign in the Polish language. The aim of this work is an attempt at noticing the regularities governing the relationship between the other and the foreign and at determining the linguistic borders of exclusion based on the lexical exponents of both concepts. The analysis is based on the respondents’ answers to the concepts of the other and the foreign, focused on the following areas: definitions, equivalents, terms, associations, oppositions, actions of the entity and actions towards the entity. In order to enrich the analyses, a review of dictionary sources and corpus data collected from National Corpus of Polish is also carried out. The collected research material has made it possible to create semantic (associative) fields of the other and the foreign concepts and thus to notice the links and differences between the lexemes on a linguistic level.

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