Konceptualizace bolesti v polštině: příspěvek ke srovnávacímu výzkumu

• Authors: Krystyna Waszakowa

Title variants

EN

The conceptualization of pain in Polish: a contribution to contrastive studies

PL

Konceptualizacja bólu w polszczyźnie: przyczynek do badań porównawczych

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper presents the picture of pain in Polish, as represented by numerous expressions figuring the lexeme ból ‘pain’. The expressions were documented either in dictionaries of Polish or in the PWN Corpus of Polish. The main focus is on conceptual metonymies and metaphors used by speakers and writers of Polish to think and talk about pain. It discusses the way they understand experiencing pain, what conceptual schemata and comparisons they invoke. Experiencing physical pain is shown according to the following profiles: 1) the pain itself as a process; 2) pain as a subject-phenomenon; 3) the feeling of pain by the subject-experiencer; 3) the localization of the pain; 4) the actions undertaken by the subject-experiencer to alleviate or eliminate pain; 6) the means used by the subject-experiencer to alleviate and/or eliminate pain. The final part of the paper discusses perspectives on contrastive research which include both a detailed analysis of lexemes pertaining to the semantic field of ‘pain’ in different languages and the comparison of the ways in which the pain is conceptualized in the languages analyzed.

Keywords

CS

konceptualizace; profilování; sémantické pole; metonymie; metafora; bolest; srovnávací sémantika

EN

Conceptualization; profiling; semantic field; metonymy; metaphor; pain; contrastive semantics

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Slovo a slovesnost: časopis pro otázky teorie a kultury jazyka (Slovo a slovesnost: A journal for the theory of language and language cultivation)
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 71
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 298-309
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Krystyna Waszakowa

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