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Концепт «работа» в венгерском, польском, русском, украинском и хорватском языках: сопоставительный анализ по данным анкетирования
The Concept of "работа" in Hungarian, Polish, Russian, Ukrainian and Croatian Languages: Comparative Analysis Based on Survey Data

Author(s): Janusz Bańczerowski , Galina Ryzhukhina, Borbála Gyertyános, Kristina Katalinić, Nelli László
Subject(s): Geography, Regional studies, Semantics, Comparative Linguistics, Cognitive linguistics, Western Slavic Languages, Eastern Slavic Languages, South Slavic Languages, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology
Published by: Akadémiai Kiadó
Keywords: linguistic image of the concept work /job; metaimage; network; cultural region; multicultural; stimulus; motivation; reaction; cognitive analysis;

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the authors present dictionary definitions of the notion work, then they analyse the results of questionnaire materials. The questionnaire contained 16 questions, three of which concerned age, gender and educational level. The rest of the questions were as follows: 1. What does work mean to you? 2. What reaction does the word work trigger? 3. What attributes of the work do you know? 4. The aim of the work. 5. Why must we work? 6. What are the results of the work? 7. What work would you like to do? 8. What is the attitude of the society to work? 9. Why does the society consider work as a value? 10. What is your opinion about unemployment? 11. What is the ideal work? 12. Name the synonyms of the word work. 13. What songs, proverbs, idiomatic expressions, etc. do you know in connection with work? This paper does not contain the results of the last two questions.

  • Issue Year: 54/2009
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 243-270
  • Page Count: 28
  • Language: Russian