Symbolika, metaforyka i frazeologia światła w języku polskim
The symbolism, metaphorics and phraseology of light in Polish

Author(s): Małgorzata Guławska-Gawkowska
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: światło; symbol; synaesthetic metaphor; phraseological unit; biblicism
Summary/Abstract: The chapter deals with the linguistic description of the Polish lexeme światło [‘light’]. Special focus is given to many of the symbolic meanings of that lexeme in quotations from the Bible and it is pointed that such uses have gained the status of catch phrases in the Polish language, while at the same time their use is becoming increasingly secularized. The chapter also presents the conceptualization of the lexeme światło in Polish phraseology on the basis of the "Wielki słownik języka polskiego PAN" (‘The Polish Academy of Sciences Great Dictionary of Polish’), the SYNAMET corpus of synaesthetic metaphors, and the National Corpus of Polish. It turns out that światło can activate numerous image schemas, in which it occurs both as a source and a target domain.

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