Lakunarność jednostki Matka Polka a jej dwujęzyczny opis słownikowy

• Authors: Szerszunowicz Joanna

Title variants

EN

Lacunarity of the unit Matka Polka and its bilingual lexicographic description

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The focal issue of the paper is to analyze the phenomenon of lacunarity on the example of the Polish unit Matka Polka (lit. Polish Mother) and its bilingual lexicographic description. The unit is well grounded in the Polish culture: the myth of Polish Mother whose duty is to educate children to be patriots and, if necessary, to die for their country, developed during the partitions of Poland. This image has undergone changes during the socialist period as well as in the times after the nineties transformation. As a result the unit gained new semantic and stylistic overtones. The lexicographic description of the unit in Polish dictionaries is discussed and confronted with the results of questionnaire research done to determine the definition among native Polish speakers. The respondents (89 Polish students of Polish and English philologies) were asked to explain the meaning of the unit, use it in three sentences as well as indicate and discuss its linguistic (positive, neutral, negative) and cultural connotations. On the basis of the linguo-cultural analysis has been proposed a definition that encompasses not only the meaning given in Polish lexicographic sources, but also the one given by the respondents. The cultural component was also included, so that the prospective user could decode and use the unit properly in various contexts.

Keywords

PL

lakunarność; wyrażenie wielowyrazowe; leksykografia dwujęzyczna

EN

lacunarity; multiword expression; bilingual lexicography

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Językoznawcze
• Year: 2013
• Issue: 15/2
• Pages: 69-82

Contributors

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Szerszunowicz Joanna

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