| Abstract [eng] |
Wisdom has always been one of the main human aspirations and its importance has been encoded in language since ancient Greece. With reference to the theoretical presumptions and methods of Lublin cognitive ethnolinguistics, this masterʼs thesis aims to explore wisdom and its perception, worldview, evaluation, and its place in the set of moral values and virtues appreciated by the Lithuanian nation. The main part of this thesis consists of a concept analysis which is structured in three parts. The first part is an investigation of data from dictionaries. It reflects the given definitions and examples of the word wisdom and its derivatives in contemporary Lithuanian dictionaries, synonymic and antonymic relations, phraseology, and etymology. The second part opposes the first in the sense that it analyzes data from a studentsʼ survey and represents the contemporaryperception of wisdom of a young person from Lithuania. The third part contains an analysis of data from six different discourses: philosophical, political, religious, social, publicistic, and literary. It shows similarities and differences between main elements of wisdom exposed in various discourses. Finally, based on the material collected, the cognitive definition is formulated. It reflects the actual perception of wisdom in Lithuanianʼs mind, together with its importance, development, and coherence to other values and virtues. |
