The soul yearns for god... Czech medieval spiritual debates “Death is always following me”, wrote a 14th century Czech author whose name had not been preserved. Death permenently accompanied every man and woman in the ...

The soul in Hebrew idioms and Biblical sayings The aim of this paper is to broaden and deepen the understanding of the soul in Judaism, which was the topic of my paper during the first edition of the Scientific Conference ...

Referat wygłoszony na konferencji z okazji jubileuszu dr Zofii Rudnik-Karwatowej "Wokół systemów informacyjno-wyszukiwawczych i słowotwórstwa" (Warszawa, 8 września 2017 r.). Organizator: Instytut Slawistyki PAN.

Sometimes close relatives of persons with neurological disorders say metaphorically: “he’s not the same person he used to be, as if someone has changed his soul” or “as if he has lost his soul”. Such impression appears ...

Wykład prof. Jerzego Dumy podczas inauguracji roku akademickiego 2016/2017 w Instytucie Slawistyki PAN

Haunted Bohemia. The early modern Czech ghosts My presentation deals with one of the specifics of the cultural history of the Czech lands in the Early Modern period – i. e. with the general perception of the afterlife ...

Language – beliefs – values – Turkish magical names with the component “soul” Language reflects the culture and values relevant to the community that speaks the language. Not only does it fix, but it also co-creates reality ...

Conceptualisation of the SOUL in Koran Koran is a source text for islamic concepts which later on were being discussed in many theological, lexicographical and legal comments. I analysed the notion of ,,soul" using the ...

A linguistic-cultural approach” In its cognitive, cultural, and anthropological dimensions, semantics is not confined to the problem of how linguistic meanings fit into the narrow frames of definitions. It is also concerned ...

Mercy – admittance of the soul to heaven. Divine and human dimension of mercy in ethnolinguistic terms The author made an attempt to reconstruct the semantic core of the concept of MERCY in Polish folklore, as well as to ...