Myśl i myślenie jako strumień / potok

• Authors: Kordian Bakuła

Title variants

EN

Thought and thinking as a stream/torrent

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The article is to demonstrate the existence in contemporary Polish of the metaphor that thought /thinking is a stream/torrent. The author has distinguished the following features of a stream or torrent: course, flow, current, liquid, meandering, broad, swift, turbid, shallow, rapid, rushing, surging, turbulent and murmuring. He has searched the Polish Internet resources (blogs, forums, articles, books), finding there examples of sentences from 2000–2014. The material collected by the author confirms that Poles today understand thought and thinking as a stream and torrent.

Keywords

EN

cognitive linguistics; metaphor; thought

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wroclawskiego
• Journal: Kształcenie Językowe
• Year: 2014
• Volume: 12 (22)
• Pages: 57 - 71

Contributors

author

Kordian Bakuła

• Uniwersytet Wrocławski