Problem konceptu bazowego i jego profilowania – na przykładzie polskiego stereotypu Europy
The base concept and its profiles. The case of the Polish stereotype of EUROPA

Summary/Abstract: The article aims to reconstruct the Polish concept of Europa (Europe) according to the EUROJOS methodology and on the basis of three sources of data: the language system, texts and questionnaires. Indirectly, it also aims to consider several notions and procedures of ethnolinguistic reconstruction, especially the changeability (or “variantability”) of the basic concept (here: Europa) relative to the various discourses in contemporary Polish public sphere.The authors present the concept of Europa as it emerges from the systemic (mainly lexicographic) and textual data analyzed in earlier studies of various scholars, but mainly concentrate on the results of three questionnaires from 1990, 2000 and 2010. The statistics derived from the questionnaires are juxtaposed with those of the systemic and textual data. By analyzing questionnaires, it is possible to render the content of the basic concept more specific: subjects’ responses reveal connotations not yet included in dictionaries, as well as relative ranks of the features attributed to a given (mental) object.

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