Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics - Jerzy Bartmiński
Prawica ‘right wing’ and lewica ‘left wing’: profiles in contemporary discourse
Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics - Jerzy Bartmiński
Jerzy Bartminski
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Description
This chapter discusses the semantic development of the Polish words Prawica ‘right wing’ and lewica ‘left wing’, as an example of the influence of the system of values professed by a given community on the semantic content of words, the internal organisation of that content and lexical usage.