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https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.51.1.6
Who Belongs to the Family? About a Difficult Answer to a Seemingly Easy Question
Dorota Pazio-Wlazłowska
orcid.org/0000-0001-8858-8432
; Instytut Slawistyki PAN, Warszawa
Sažetak
Although the family − in spite of the dynamic changes in social life – is still very important for Polish linguoculture, defining universal criteria unambiguously, determining who belongs to it poses significant difficulties. It is impossible to draw up a closed, exhaustive list of its members. An analysis of the data − legal acts, tombstone inscriptions, lexicographical definitions and survey results − indicates a wide variety of parameters that may determine whether someone (human and non-human persons) is a family member. These include kinship, affinity, running a joint household, cohabitation, birth of a child, strong emotional ties, etc. The selection of the parameters depends on the particular situation and subject’s individual and subjective decision, which changes, among other things, according to the purpose of the inclusion, the subject’s intentions and his/her personal experience.
Ključne riječi
family; family member; cultural concept; Polish language; human and non-human persons
Hrčak ID:
336129
URI
Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2025.
Posjeta: 1.151 *