THE CONCEPT OF KONFLIKT / CONFLICT IN THE POLISH MENTAL AND LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS
THE CONCEPT OF KONFLIKT / CONFLICT IN THE POLISH MENTAL AND LINGUISTIC SYSTEMS

Summary/Abstract: When observing the contemporary world, one cannot fail to notice that in many areasof life, not only in the personal lives of particular people, but also within the public andsocial aspects of human existence, conflict seems to be fairly omnipresent. This paper setsto analyse the discussed concept in the Polish language from two different perspectives.The first stage of the research deals with the analysis of the immediate linguisticvicinity of the notion of konflikt / conflict to search for the location of the aforementionedphenomenon within the Polish linguistic system. The aim of this research is to presentwhat types of domains are employed to conceptualise konflikt / conflict. The analysisis based on the selected corpus data found in the Polish language.The second stage of the research comprises the analysis of 183 surveys containingtwo elements: the definitions of konflikt / conflict and the association maps referringto this concept created by students at the age of 16-24. The aim of this task is to searchfor the associations attached to the discussed phenomenon by young people, andthe similarities and differences within the definitions suggested by them.

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