Pole pojęciowe „podróż” u dzieci niesłyszących

Abstract

The paper contains the description of the notion field of “journey” in deaf children. It is based on the studies of the language of deaf children and on the theoretical bases of the theory of notion fields, and the method of interest centres described in Poland by Władysław Miodunka. The paper supports the thesis that in teaching verbal language to the deaf, that method is interesting and may bring good results because it aims at mastering the situation vocabulary. The research has demonstrated the social and individual circumstances of the contents of the notion field of “journey”, its boundaries, the problem of central and peripheral words. Particularly important for the practitioners, language teachers, are the remarks about the practical application of interest centres and the studies of notion fields. Boundaries of this paper reach the problems related to the theory of language field – especially, the description of the limits of the language field “journey”, independence of the word, mental reality of the field, and not the lexical-semantic structure of the vocabulary.