Hlavně žádná věda: zdravý rozum a common sense prizmatem přirozeného sémantického metajazyka

• Authors: Marie Pavlásková

Title variants

EN

The Czech zdravý rozum and the English common sense through the prism of the Natural Semantic Metalanguage

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This paper aims to analyse the meaning of the salient Czech concept of zdravý rozum, and compare it with its English equivalent, common sense. It does so by using the natural semantic metalanguage, a universal and elementary metalanguage originated by Anna Wierzbicka. This metalanguage represents a shared conceptual core of, presumably, all natural languages, so it is independent of any particular culture and can serve as a non-ethnocentric tertium comparationis for the purposes of intercultural ethnolinguistic research. In this study, it serves to compare and contrast two unique and highly complex concepts that enable us to gain some insight into two different linguistic worldviews – and their respective cultures.

Keywords

CS

Anna Wierzbicka; etnolingvistika; interkulturní sémantika; kulturní lingvistika; lingvistická antropologie; přirozený sémantický metajazyk; zdravý rozum

EN

Anna Wierzbicka; common sense; cultural linguistics; ethnolinguistics; intercultural semantics; linguistic anthropology; natural semantic metalanguage

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2022
• Volume: 105
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 21-36
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Marie Pavlásková

• Naše řeč, redakce, Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v.v.i., Letenská 4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic