Is there a Text Image of the World? Cover Image

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Is there a Text Image of the World?

Author(s): Wojciech Kajtoch
Contributor(s): Iva Ivanova (Translator)
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Communication studies, Psycholinguistics, Sociolinguistics, Theory of Communication
Published by: Факултет по журналистика и масова комуникация, Софийски университет „Св. Кл. Охридски”
Keywords: Linguistic; Text Picture of the World; Discourse Analysis; Thematic lexicography; Quantitative content analysis

Summary/Abstract: The article "Is there a Text Image of the World" will present the most important opinions in Poland on the interdependence of the Linguistic Image of the World and the Text Image of the World. He will try to answer the title question on the basis of empirical examples. Establishing a Text Picture of the World is also a kind of discourse research. The text proposes to refer to the lexicographic tradition (creating thematic dictionaries) and to the quantitative lexical analysis of the content. The empirical material used in the article consists of three text corpora of 250,000 words each. They collect texts taken from youth magazines of the 1990s. The views presented in the article are in opposition to the findings of the Lublin school of ethnolinguistics

  • Issue Year: 1/2022
  • Issue No: 12
  • Page Range: 5-26
  • Page Count: 22
  • Language: Bulgarian