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Accepted Paper:
The concept of home in European Portuguese: lar versus casa
Zuzanna Bulat Silva
(University of Wrocław)
Paper short abstract:
In this paper I would like to discuss the meaning of two Portuguese lexemes that correspond to the English concept of 'home': lar and casa. On the basis of lexicographical data and questionnaires held among Portuguese students, I will try to explain the meaning of lar and casa in the NSM terms.
Paper long abstract:
In this paper I want to give attention to the microscale of home, situating my research on the level of words. I will discuss the meaning of two Portuguese lexemes that correspond to the English concept of 'home': lar and casa. On the basis of lexicographical data and questionnaires held among Portuguese students of the Universidade Nova, Lisbon in 2012 and 2014, I will explain the meaning of lar and casa in terms of the natural semantic metalanguage (NSM, see Wierzbicka 1996, 2013). I will show not only how they differ both from each other and from their English counterpart home, but also how distinct their images are as given in the dictionaries, and as viewed by the young Portuguese.
References:
Wierzbicka, A. (1996) Semantics: Primes and Universals, Oxford: OUP.
Wierzbicka, A. (2013) Imprisoned in English, Oxford: OUP.