Keywords
abstract nouns and concepts
grammar teaching
linguistics
philosophy
psychology apstraktne imenice i pojmovi
metodika nastave gramatike
lingvistika
filozofija
psihologija
grammar teaching
linguistics
philosophy
psychology apstraktne imenice i pojmovi
metodika nastave gramatike
lingvistika
filozofija
psihologija
How to Cite
Petrović Dakić, A. (2020). Is the Category of Abstract Words and Concepts in Cognitive Sciences Didacticly Justified?. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia Ad Didacticam Litterarum Polonarum Et Linguae Polonae Pertinentia, 11(315), 61–71. https://doi.org/10.24917/20820909.11.5
Abstract
Although abstract nouns are introduced as a grammatical category in Serbian elementary schools at the beginning of the 5th grade, their status within the system is not as stable as it would appear at first. After analyzing the criteria for defining abstract words and concepts used in basic cognitive sciences - in linguistics, philosophy, and psychology - a conclusion emerges that these criteria are inadequate, and that the concrete: abstract relation it is not, as is often considered, binary. This further leads to recommendations
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