PRZYJAŹŃ jako wartość w rozumieniu gimnazjalistów

Abstract

The paper concerns selected issues of ways of understanding PRZYJAŹŃ/FRIENDSHIP by comprehensive school pupils. Empirical study proves that pupils' interpretation of the word PRZYJAŻŃ/FRIENDSHIP goes beyond semantic frames of definitions published in dictionaries of the Polish language that take into account only two categories: STOSUNKI MIĘDZYLUDZKIE/INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS and WIĘŹ/A TIE. Pupils of comprehensive schools. using psychological categorization and social categorization, place as the first the category UCZUCIE/FEELING and as the second one the category WIĘŹ/A TIE. Among features connoting prototypical meaning 3. to come to somebody’s help, 6. acceptance o f partners' equality. Among peripheral meanings pupils count: 1. close friendship, 2. trust, 3. sincerity, 4. desire to confide, 5. readiness to come to somebody’s help, 6. acceptance o f partners' equality. Among peripheral meanings pupils number: 1. disinterestedness, 2. heartiness, 3. loyalty. Interpretation of the word PRZYJAżŃ/FRIENDSHIP by young people is conditioned by many psychological and socio- cultural factors.