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• Title:
  The Lexis of Divination and Witchcraft in Nowy Wielki Dykcjonarz by Pierre Danet and Dymitr Franciszek Kola
• Creator:
  Marczak , Marek
• Description:
  The paper aims to investigate Polish lexis belonging to the semantic fields of DIVINATION and WITCHCRAFT. The material was excerpted from the 18th-century trilingual Nowy wielki dykcjonarz (New grand dictionary). The semantic fields under analysis were divided into subfields. In the case of DIVINATION, the subfields of DIVINATION PRACTISES and PEOPLE FORETELLING THE FUTURE were identified. In turn, WITCHCRAFT was subdivided into MAGICAL PRACTICES, PEOPLE PRACTISING MAGIC and EFFECTS OF MAGIC. The analysis of the retrieved material suggests that the number of individual lexemes is relatively small and usually polysemic, which appears to contradict the popularity and prevalence of divination and witchcraft in the 18th-century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth as established by cultural historians. The supposed misrepresentation of the semantic fields under scrutiny may reflect the didactic nature of the Polish part of the dictionary.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Prawa autorskie (c) 2021 Marek Marczak
• Date:
  2021.12.27
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion;
  Artykuł recenzowany
• Language:
  Polish
• Source:
  Poznańskie Studia Polonistyczne. Seria Językoznawcza; Tom 28 Nr 2 (2021); 107-124;
  2450-4939;
  1233-8672
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsj/article/view/30933/27457
• Subject:
  historical lexicology;
  18th century;
  Danet-Kola Dictionary;
  Dymitr Franciszek Kola;
  Pierre Danet;
  sorcery;
  divination
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/pspsj/article/view/30933
• Data provider:
  Platforma Otwartych Czasopism Naukowych UAM
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  seek permission
• Type:
  text