ak się zmienia językowy obraz gołębia w polszczyźnie?

This scetch is dedicated to the reconstruction of a linguistic picture pigeon in Polish. The research mate-rial consists lexicographic definitions, idioms, proverbs, derivative words and semantic neologisms, while latest language data, represented by texts Internet comments, allow reconstruct most current components this bird. analysis shows that positive as faith-ful, gentle bird symbol love peace, beginning be replaced negative associations. phrases gołąb nie ptak (‘pigeon not bird’) latający szczur (‘a rat with wings’) remove outside zoological class birds thus – give it axiological characterization.