Kонцепт Я–ЖЕНЩИНА: стилистически сниженная лексика в романе Марии Арбатовой «Меня зовут женщина»

Abstract

This article relates to the field of cultural linguistics, and also touches upon the area of cognitive linguistics. The purpose is to describe the concept of «I am a WOMAN» by analyzing vocabulary highlighted in the text, which relates to a reduced style and which is distributed into lexical-thematic groups. In addition, this article provides equivalents of lexical units of central focus in Polish. The paper consists of three parts. The first is the theoretical part, which provides an overview of the problem. It is given in order to familiarize the reader with the following terminology: a concept, an art concept, stylistically reduced vocabulary. Next follows the practical part of the article, which includes the description of each of the selected lexical and thematic groups. Vocabulary is analyzed and Polish equivalents offered. In the third and final part, the concept of «I am a WOMAN » is described, basic conclusions made, as well as the difficulties and peculiarities of translation are discussed.