Czech concept DOMOV 'home' in the lignt of linguistic, empirical, and text data

Abstract

Concept DOMOV ('home') represents one of the fundamental values of Czech culture, and expression domov matches the criteria for cultural key words defined by A. Wierzbicka.

The abridged English version of the chapter about this Czech concept (one of eighteen chapters of the book), presents the main lingustic data related to DOMOV, focusing on the three leveling profiles of this concept.

Keywords

• ethnolinguistics
• DOMOV (´home´)
• Czech
• Czech culture
• concept
• profiles
• value
• axiology