Looking Surreptitiously – On Peeping into the Linguistic Picture of the World of the Russians and Poles

Daria Słupianek-Tajnert

Zakład Pragmatyki Komunikacyjnej Języków Obcych Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu

Abstract

The aim of the article is to carry out an analysis of the function of the verbs podglądać/
подглядывать in the linguistic picture of world of the Russians and Poles. The anthropologically-
cultural aspect used as a methodological basis for the article enabled to investigate
a tremendous potential of the above-mentioned verbs to express the evaluative, associative
and cultural content.

Keywords:

visual perception, anthropocentrism, linguistic world’s image, axiological factor