Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics - Jerzy Bartmiński
Varieties of fate: the Polish los and dola; the Russian sud’ba
Aspects of Cognitive Ethnolinguistics - Jerzy Bartmiński
Jerzy Bartminski
Uniwersytet Marii Curie-Skłodowskiej
Description
This chapter presents the Polish concepts of los and dola, destiny and existence, belonging to the category of cultural key-words. It is inspired by a study by Anna Wierzbicka (‘Fate and destiny’), published in her 1992 book Semantics, Culture and Cognition. Thus, the present chapter partly develops Wierzbicka’s ideas and partly opposes them.