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Synopsis
VILLAGE HOUSE AS A VALUE
The subject of the article is a village house as the key concept and centre of the system of values in a rural linguistic and cultural community (Bartmiński 1997, 11). The concept is understood here as a “domesticated place” because, in a village, a house is not just a building in which people live surrounded by a natural, rural landscape, but it also includes farm buildings, farmyard and nature within the area. In the text, I perceive a village house in two dimensions: as a material value and a social value (Bartmiński 1997, 14). Since a house has its own subjectivity, such subjectivity is also a part of the elements that constitute its essence: kitchen, table, furnace, farm tools, farm animals, and nature surrounding the house. However, the most important part of the subjectivity of a village house is a man who, because of his ancestors, was assigned to this house. Thus, further concepts, such as father, mother, family, as well as the local rural community, become involved in the social meaning of the lexeme in question. Within the last several decades, social-cultural transformations of rural space have slightly modified the image of a village house, but they have not changed its valuing which has always been high and very positive.