THE INTERPRETATION OF BOŽENA NĚMCOVÁ ́S LETTERS: THE LINGUISTIC PICTURE OF THE WORLD AND IMAGE SCHEMAS

• Authors: Lucie Saicová Římalová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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The article presents the theory of the linguistic picture of the world and the theory of image schemas and discusses their role in the interpretation of “older” literature. The problem is illustrated using letters written by and to B. Němcová, a Czech female writer of the 19th century. The text attempts to demonstrate that the two aspects play different roles in different writer reader configurations – in the context of the original epistolary communication, when the texts are read by the 19th century readers who were not the intended addresses, and when they are interpreted by a contemporary reader.

Keywords

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LINGUISTIC PICTURES; IMAGE SCHEMA; EPISTOLARY COMMUNICATION; BOŽENA NĚMCOVÁ

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 7 (24)
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 26 – 35

Contributors

author

Lucie Saicová Římalová

• Ústav českého jazyka a teorie komunikace, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Karlova v Praze, nám. J. Palacha 2, 116 38 Praha 1, Czech Republic