Semantyczno-konotacyjne cechy charakterystyczne konceptu prawda / / правда

Abstract

The proposed article discusses the concept of prawda / правда (truth) in the Polish and Ukrainian languages and its semantic and connotative characteristics. The semantic dominant of the concept of prawda / правда is “justice” as correspondence to legal and moral principles; its structure is composed of ‘correspondence to the objective reality’, ‘genuineness’, ‘authenticity’, ‘essence of truth’, ‘order based on justice’, and its conceptual characteristics are the moral characteristics and values underlying the moral ideal, the normative characteristics and values concerned with the representations of what is authentic in the life of a human being or a society; the legal aspect of the concept of правда is associated with rights and obligations, while the cognitive aspect is related to a human being’s representations of correspondence to reality. The concept of prawda / правда is multifunctional and sets the main direction for the national culture or, to be more specific, the desire of higher ideals of good and justice, which are the foundation stone in all spheres of the life of a human being and a society.