Przestrzeń aksjologiczna w aspekcie komunikacyjnym (na przykładzie baśni H. Ch. Andersena)

Abstract

The article treats about the problem of the sphere of values which emerges from the literary text. It is presented on the base of Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales. From the very beginning the text gives careful consideration to the genesis of fairy tales as a genre, their features and functions, addressee and code. The article also draws an analogy between fairy tales and myths and addictionally takes a stand on metaphorical communication. The article is also about communicative situation presented by means of three models of the text and the main assumption of values in fairy tales. The article ends by presenting and discussing five groups of values often encountered in fairy tales (among other things keys, archetypes and existence phenomena).