Motherhood in the Worldview of the Lithuanian Language (Based on the Associations of the Word mama (En. Mom) and the Compounds of the Words motiniškas, -a (En. Motherly), motiniškai (En. in a Motherly Way)
Abstract
The article describes part of the content of the concept MOTINA (En. MOTHER), which belongs to the Lithuanian worldview. Using the results of the analysis of the association field of the word mama (En. mom), all forms of the adjectives motiniškas, -a (En. motherly) and the compounds of the adverb motiniškai (En. in a motherly way), the paper aims to summarise the perception of what a mother is in the Lithuanian language worldview, and the behavioural patterns that are typical of her. The paper is based on the analysis of the results of the free association experiment and the analysis of the examples from the Current Lithuanian Language textbook compiled at the Centre for Computational Linguistics of Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. The research presented in the paper provides information about the content of the MOTINA (En. MOTHER) concept and adds to what is already known about the peculiarities of world categorisation in the worldview of Lithuanians.
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