https://doi.org/10.31261/PS_P.2025.35.12
The relationship between language and values has long attracted the attention of linguists, yet the issue of values within the linguistic image of flowers on the material of Polish and Ukrainian has not yet been analysed. The stereotypical features of flowers in Polish language and culture have been studied by a team of ethnolinguists headed by Professor Jerzy Bartminski, resulting in part 3 (Kwiaty [Flowers]) of volume 2 (Rośliny [Plants]) of the Słownik stereotypów i symboli ludowych [Dictionary of Folk Stereotypes and Symbols]. In Ukrainian, on the other hand, the stereotypical features of flowers were described by Vitalii Žajvoronok in the dictionary Znaky ukrajins’koji etnokul’tury. The author examines the manifestations of valuing at the level of linguistic categorisation of the flower and the recognition of individual plants as flowers, as well as at the level of metaphorisation and connotation of various phenomena, objects, man himself, his life, etc. presented in Polish and Ukrainian. In both languages, the flower itself is the value, while its parts (petals, heads) acquire axiological connotations. Flowers present positive members of axiological oppositions: life – death, top – down, beauty – ugliness, honesty (virginity) – falsehood (lying), sacrum – profanum, brightness – darkness, youth – age, etc. The second, negative member of these oppositions is the flower. The second, negative segment of these oppositions is verbalised in the linguistic image of flowers by the absence / displacement / change of the positive segment, i.e. the absence of the flower / its parts / its inversion on the up – down axis.
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Vol. 35 No. 1 (2025)
Published: 2025-06-30
10.31261/PS_P
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