Published: 2020-12-23

Intercultural approach in foreign language teaching — corpus analysis in research of semantic differences and similarities of the word politeness in French and Polish

Agnieszka Dryjańska Logo ORCID

Abstract

This paper investigates an attempt to apply a corpus analysis to the development of the intercultural approach to foreign language teaching through the semantic analysis of cultural keywords. Our analysis will specifically include the process of discovering the meaning of the three words: French politesse and its Polish equivalents — grzeczność and uprzejmość through their collocations collected in French and Polish corpora. As a result, firstly, we came up with a conclusion that the French word politesse is characterized by more positive semantic prosody than its Polish equivalents. Secondly, politesse appears more frequently in coordinate collocations with nouns conveying aesthetical meaning, whereas the Polish word uprzejmość is more frequently used with nouns designating ethical features. The principles of our methodology or some data used in our research can inspire the introduction of an inductive lexical approach in foreign language teaching to facilitate the conceptualization of complex cultural notions, which is the essential of the intercultural teaching.

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Dryjańska, A. (2020). Intercultural approach in foreign language teaching — corpus analysis in research of semantic differences and similarities of the word politeness in French and Polish. Neophilologica, 32, 233–257. https://doi.org/10.31261/NEO.2020.32.13

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Vol. 32 (2020)
Published: 2020-12-23


ISSN: 0208-5550
eISSN: 2353-088X
Ikona DOI 10.31261/NEO

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Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press

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