The concept of «Ангел / Angel» in the lingua-cultural picture of the world

Abstract

The present text is the review article of the book of Ewa Straś entitled Ангел / Angel in the Russian-Polish comparison: semantico-ethnocultural aspect (Ternopil, Krok, 2013, 352 pp.). In Polish Slavistics the monograph is recognised as the first work that shows the panoramic approach to the concept. The main attention is focused on the semantic aspect of names connected with angels and their functioning in text. The topic of angels is treated by the author as a phenomenon of culture, represented by the richness of lexical means. She presents the picture of angel in both compared linguistic and cultural areas, taking into consideration similarities as well as differences in their images.