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The aim of the present paper is to reconstruct the linguistic picture of the concept ‘mother’ formed in real social realia used by speakers of Polish and Hungarian. The questionnaires contained the following five topics: 1. Who is ‘mother’? (to give a definition of ‘mother’); 2. What features can be attributed to ‘mother’? (to list only adjectives); 3. What actions are typical of ‘mother’? (to list only verbs); 4. Describe your mother in a few words; 5. What kind of associations and emotions (both positive and negative) are evoked in you by the concept of ‘mother’? The questionnaires were filled in by 103 Polish and 139 Hungarian respondents

Linguistics · Language and Culture · Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity · Philosophy · Polish-Jewish Holocaust Memory Studies · Psychology