Konceptualizacja pojęcia narratio w świecie indoeuropejskim
Verbs describing storytelling in Indo-European languages

Summary/Abstract: The article is an attempt to reconstruct the linguistic picture of storytelling on the basis of etymology of contemporary verbs in Indo-European languages. Dictionary data were used to describe conceptualizations accompanying verbs such as Latin "nārrāre" along with the derived Roman verbs, Polish "opowiadać" and other Slavic verbs with a common linguistic ancestor, Russian paccказа́ть and forms related to it in East and South Slavic languages, as well as Germanic verbs, such as German "erzählen" and English "to tell". Analyses have shown that in each language group it was a different linguistic feature of storytelling that was dominating in the process of name creation: transfer of knowledge, being a eyewitness, telling the truth and preserving the sequence of events.

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