The Interpretation of Božena Němcová's Letters: the Linguistic Picture of the World and Image Schemas

Abstract

The article discusses the role of image ischemas and the theory of the linguistic picture of the world in the interpretaion of "older" literature and shows that the two aspects play different roles in different writer-reader configurations. The problem is illustrated using letters written by and to B.

Němcová.

Keywords

• Božena Němcová
• letters
• image schema
• linguistic Picture of the world