CONCEPT “DESTINY”: FEATURES OF REPRESENTATION IN POLISH LINGVOCULTURE
Concept “los” (“destiny”) as a key in the Polish culture has many lexical representation. “Destiny” in Polish is the life, the existence of someone or something; future, sequence of events; the supreme regulatory beginning. Destiny is thought of as contradictory, ambivalent beginning. It is able to help or hinder. Carriers of the Polish language are ambivalent in their relation to the destiny. Presence of the destiny may either be approved or denied. Poles have different views on the nature of destiny. On the one hand, destiny is presented as unchangeable and predefined from above. On the other, there is a view that it is created during the life (existence), and, for example, a person can have a significant influence on it. Metaphorically in Polish destiny is represented by the signs of person, connecting or disconnecting, gracious or formidable beginning.
Keywords: concept, lingvoculture, Polish language, lexical representation, conceptual metaphor
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Issue: 2, 2016
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