Koncept BLISKOŚĆ we frazeologii języka polskiego i rosyjskiego

The subject of research constitutes Polish and Russian phraseological units realizing the concept of BLISKOŚĆ (CLOSENESS). The author provides a linguo-cultural characteristic of the very concept and means of its objectivisation in both languages compared. The problem of a subjective evaluation appears in almost each unit under analysis. The analysis is not based on qualitative expressions, but an intuitive distance evaluation. The concept of BLISKOŚĆ (CLOSENESS) in Russian is given a bigger distance than in Polish as the perception of distance specific to Russian and Poland differs