ASSOCIATE CONNECTIONS OF THE CONCEPT “ŚMIERĆ”
Journal: Tomsk state pedagogical university bulletin
Year: 2017

The article deals with the results of the experiment and the interview which were directed at revealing the associative links of the Polish concept “śmierć” / “death”. A study of such kind of links can help in modeling the structure of the concept. The resulting verbal associations reflect the conceptual signs of the concept “śmierć” (‘end’, ‘departure’), indicate a deep rootedness in the consciousness of the Poles of cultural stereotypes which are a figurative representation of death (in the im