Streszczenie
The nomina actionis of the selected verbs of visual perception are studied here in their discursive function in a well-defi ned context, namely that of the meetings between Jesus and Sister Faustina Kowalska, described in her “Diary”. This communication situation will make it possible to locate the Polish and French derivational models for the nouns spojrzenie / widzenie – regard / vision, to propose a coherent semantic description of these nouns which takes into account its different dimensions and to indicate the importance of the collocative verbs for the study of the meaning of nomina actionis. The article also aims to be a contribution of the linguistic analysis of the parallel bilingual corpus for the contrastive approach of Polish and French derived nouns.