Year: 2024
Type: book
Abstract: ‘Polish Associative Dictionary. Two decades” comprises two volumes. The first one, authored by Roman Gawarkiewicz, contains empirical linguistic material organised according to the scheme from stimulus to response. The second volume, authored by Barbara Rodziewicz, presents linguistic data in the order from response to stimulus . The linguistic material included in both volumes of the dictionary was obtained as a result of association studies conducted in 2003 and in 2023. Students of various faculties and specialisations studying at Polish universities participated in both studies. The respondents were given questionnaires containing 110 stimulus words - the same in 2003 and 2023 - and were asked to write the verbal reactions they evoked in the form of a single word or phrase next to the stimulus words. The list of stimulus words included, among others, concepts covering such headword categories as anti-values, ideas and attitudes, names of actions, activities and states, names of communities and members of those communities, temporal symbols and concepts, names of objects of the surrounding natural world, and quantitative and qualitative categorisers. In our opinion, the concept of both volumes of the dictionary, which contains a compilation of linguistic data obtained in the association studies of 2023 and 2003, can serve as a basis for intra-linguistic comparative analyses. This is because it makes it possible to infer both the scale of the linguistically determined perceptual limitations of the respondents and to describe the influence of the current socio-cultural background on this process, i.e. the current factors of decisive importance for the respondents in the process of choosing categorisation schemes for objects and phenomena of the surrounding world. In fact, the dictionary material will make it possible to come closer to answering questions about how people accumulate current experiences, what they remember and what they treat with conviction as norms and patterns around which their linguistic and cultural community unites. Volume One contains headwords compiled on the basis of the data obtained in the 2023 and 2003 surveys. In the structure of each headword labelled with the date of the surveys, next to the stimulus word there are all the response words ordered according to the indicators of their frequency given by the respondents - from response words indicated most often to single response words. The entries are concluded with the following data - number of respondents who responded to the given stimulus word, number of different response words, number of respondents who did not respond, number of single responses. The second volume was developed according to the key from response to stimulus. It contains a complete list of the collected results of the 2023 and 2003 association tests in the form of verbal responses given in alphabetical order, together with the numerical data characterising them.
Author: Barbara Rodziewicz
Institution: University of Szczecin
Language: Polish
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W4398204912