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The renowned philologist Nikita Tolstoi promoted revolutionary ideas not only in Russian but also in the worldwide Slavonic studies. He, together with Svetlana Tolstaia, established the Moscow school of ethnolinguistics, the methodology of which is becoming increasingly topical, covering novel themes, and the number of researchers working in this field in different countries grows year by year. The 100th birth anniversary of the academician instigated his disciples to review their mentor’s work in order to evaluate his scientific contribution from the perspective of modernity and to analyse the evolution of his ideas.
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The designations of systemic doctrines are labels and landmarks in the public debate: in relation to them, its participants and observers define their political identity, at the same time projecting ideas about the identity of their opponents. Therefore, their semantic content differs depending on who and for what purpose calls these designations in the public space. This is the main reason why such names have become the subject of attention from researchers interested in language as an element of social life. One of such designations is capitalism – one of the key concepts of the Polish political transformation. However, this designation and the concept behind it were the subject of linguists’ attention to a lesser extent than it might seem. I would like to fill this gap. My aim was to present the shaping of the concept of capitalism in Polish in various historical periods. I analyzed the linguistic material taken from Polish encyclopedias and dictionaries. Being aware that the selection of sources is not representative of the entire Polish language, I treat the results of the analysis as an introduction to further research. I referred to the concept of the linguistic image of the world. Capitalism appears for the first time in Polish encyclopedias and dictionaries at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. From that moment on, the scope of definitions and the number of their semantic components constantly increased, and their final number, type and hierarchy differed depending on the historical period in question. The two great turning points in the profiling of the concept of capitalism are the years 1945 and 1989. This allows us to formulate a thesis about the important role of encyclopedias and dictionaries in petrifying a specific resource of knowledge and legitimizing the political regime.
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The reception of refugees on Polish territory remains a subject of tensions between Poland and the European Union, following the question of migrant relocation on European soil, which emerged in 2015. However, beyond the various political, economic or even cultural questions that may have been raised, we can wonder about the exact meaning of the Polish lexeme uchodźca (“a refugee”), which is at the heart of the debates. The study of the semantic features that the Poles themselves associate with this word is decisive for better understanding this nation in its positions towards the “refugee question”. These semantic features, deriving from the representations of the speaking subjects rather than the dictionaries or the international law is called in cognitive ethnolinguistics cognitive definition. Therefore, the numerous features of such “refugee” definition may be not only related to politics and economics but they can have also a strong sociocultural, geographical, biological, psychical and even religious dimension. These features will allow us to present three portraits: the portraits of the threatening-refugee, of the threatened-refugee and a portrait of another kind: the benevolent-refugee.
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The author addresses the constantly relevant problem of the relationship between language and identity, gaining a new dimension in the context of transformations related to civilisation, globalisation and glocalisation. The research concerned students’ awareness of the role they believed language to play in the shaping of identity. For this purpose, surveys were conducted among 66 students of humanities. The paper fits in the field of ethnolinguistics and sociolinguistics.
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The article deals with problems of linguistic stereo typification of ethno cultural space. In author’s opinion identity of lingvo culture is depended on the specific system of interconnections of subject and linguistic meanings, verbal stereotypes and lingvo cognitive systems which is the base of world vision and world perception of each people. The linguistic stereotypes as subjective determine representations (a) reproduce objective and estimative attributes of named object or phenomenon, which is distinguished by the result of interpretation of reality in the space ethno relevant cognitive models, (b) stipulate the character and the content of connotative meanings of ward, (c) create the peculiar ethno semantic aura of language and ethno linguistic mind as the result of representation the stereotypical perception of the world in the language in correspondence with defined value and semantic coordinates of one or another lingvo culture.
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Co to jest kulturem?

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The goal of the paper is to present culturemes, a concept used in cultural studies, glottodidactics, translation studies, and ethnolinguistics. As is the case with many terms in humanities, also cultureme has several understandings. In the ethnolinguistic perspective, culturemes are related to Anna Wierzbicka’s key words, Walery Pisarek’s flag words, and Michael Fleischer’s collective symbols. Polish research into culturemes was initiated by Alicja Nagórko who defines them as ‘key words which are important for the self-identification of a community, and which characterize both the community’s attitude towards tradition and inherited values, and how it copes with the present time and with the current experiencing of the world’. One as yet unrealized goal is to identify and list Polish culturemes; this is one of the more urgent tasks of ethnolinguistics.
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The subject of this research is the image of a World Tree, its realizations and significances. Tree, as a representation of the axis of the world, so-called axis mundi has been conceptualized since ancient times. The image of a World Tree is relevant to many cultures, as well as the traditional culture of Don Cossacks, in which it is connected to with space zoning (structuring of the world). For example, the underworld (the so-called “тот свет”) is marked by trees, which are growing with their roots up. Moreover, time-characteristics are relate to the image of a World Tree too (marking of time, the point of a new life cycle). This investigation is based on data from dictionaries of Don dialect and materials from the interview with Don Cossacks’s, made by the author. Don traditional culture is in the tideway of an East-Slavonic tradition, but it has have some peculiarities, concerned with regional representations of an image (for instance, ковыла ‘feather grass’ as an embodiment of a World Tree in Don texts of charms).
Świat i Słowo
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2022
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vol. 39
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issue 2
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Selected linguistic and cultural aspects related to domestic animals in ethnolinguistic panchronic study by Olga Kielak This paper shows the review of a monograph titled Domestic animals in Language and Culture, An Ethnolinguistic Study, by Olga Kielak. I summarize and evaluate the major points I have chosen from the book in a point-by-point schema. I answer the following questions: how well has the author achieved the overall purpose of the book? What contribution does the work make to an existing body of knowledge? I show that it is a precise, multi-faceted, complete study of domestic animals in the Polish language and culture.
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The aim of the article is to present ludic discourse studies in the Opole school of stylistics. First, the author presents the very term “discourse” and its collocations, showing how fashionable it is, in how many different contexts it can be used and why it can be useful also in humour studies. Then she outlines the premises and most important achievements of two collaborating schools: Lublin ethnolinguistic school and Opole stylistics school. This is the background of ludic discourse studies conducted by the latter.
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The aim of the article is to point out and describe the profiles of the concept of EUROPE in Wojciech Jagielski’s non-fiction book All Lara’s Wars. Profiling in ethnolinguistics is a process of creating an individual image (profile) of a particular object. The profiles can be diverse, depending on what kind of aspects are important in shaping a particular subjective vision. Based on the linguistic analysis of the chosen quotes from the book, six profiles of EUROPE have been pointed out: promised land, open home, fortress, package, waiting room and land of disappointment. The common aspect which can be found in all the profiles is the geographical one. However, each profile is shaped differently and is dominated by one of the aspects: living, social or civilisational (cultural). Two of the profiles are positively valued (promised land and open home) and the other four are negatively valued, which leads to the conclusion that the image of EUROPE presented in the book is mostly characterised as pejorative.
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The fact that the Lemko language is placed in the ethnolinguistic Western Slav-ic area next to the Polish language, which is dominant from the sociolinguistic point of view, has had and continues to have a significant impact on its development. Consequently, the Lemko language, similarly to other (Slavic) micro- languages, should be considered susceptible to changes resulting from the im-pact of exogenous factors, which can be observed even on a morphological level, which is generally perceived as particularly resistant to external influ-ences. However, research conducted on the basis of material from the spoken corpus of the Lemko language shows that not all linguistic changes currently taking place in that language have been caused by the impact of Polish.
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The paper tries to answer the question about the onomastic base of the names for ‘juniper’ and ‘viburnum’, i.e. which of their features or what image of these plants has been preserved in their names. The author tests whether the features captured in literary and dialectal Polish names for these shrubs are confirmed by folk texts, popular narratives and beliefs. Hypotheses put forward by etymologists are verified and confronted with the linguistic material which the author used to reconstruct the linguistic-cultural image of juniper and viburnum in colloquial and folk Polish. The paper is a yet another voice in the discussion about the suitability of ethnolinguistic research for the study of etymology, and the usefulness of etymology for ethnolinguists.
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The article is devoted to the peasant stereotype of “beauty” recorded in the folk songs of the Sokółka region (the Podlaskie province). The reconstruction of the image of the “physical beauty of a human” has been narrowed down to the most frequent in the collected material names for parts of the face, like: eyes, eyebrows, mouth. The text analyzes in detail the ways of valorizing the physiognomies of men and women as well as lyrical functions performed by descriptions of the characters’ physical appearance. The study considers wide cultural connotations, necessary for correct understanding of the folk texts. The performed analysis proves that speaking of the beauty of the song characters one speaks in fact of the traits of their character and their morality.
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The article analyses Russian emotional concepts ‘sadness’, ‘yearning’ and its correspondences in Polish and Czech. The author comes to conclusion, that Russian linguistic personality feels these emotions as collective, while Polish and Czech ones as personal.
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The article deals with the representation of the soul in mythological consciousness of the Belarusians, which is reflected in the folk culture texts. Research is based on the ethnolinguistic point of view. The ethnographic materials of the 19th – the beginning of the 20th centuries, modern studies of Belarusian folk culture and Belarusian dialect dictionaries are the factual basis of the research. The author proves that all pagan ideas in these texts are determined by the general paradigm of the Belarusian traditional culture, in which Christian and pagan principles coexist without an obvious priority.
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Kashubian, as a Proto-Slavic dialect, was similar to the Greater Poland and Lesser Poland dialects which with time provided the foundations for the Polish language. However, as early as in the 13th century, differences became noticea-ble resulting from the autonomous development of Kashubian on the periph-ery of the Slavic world. Language is one of the most important ethnic building elements manifested by the Kashubian people since the dawn of ethnic eman-cipation which started in the mid-19th century, when Florian Ceynowa, physi-cian and father of Kashubian national empowerment, created the first Kashubian alphabet, normalised the spelling, compiled the grammar rules and started to write journalistic, scientific and literary texts. In the past, the Kashubians had long lacked the conviction that their vernacular had value. The joint work of many communities, undertaken for the sake of the linguistic status of Kashubian in the 1990s, led first of all to a change of the attitude of the us-ers towards their own language, and subsequently to its recognition as a sepa-rate Slavic language. Kashubian was granted the political and legal status of a regional language in 2005. It satisfies mainly those who have adopted a hybrid identity characterised by being Kashubian in the regional aspect and Polish in the national aspect. However, that status is insufficient for Kashubians repre-senting the national option, who identify themselves as Polish citizens of Kashubian nationality.
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Życzenia i winszowanie jako akt mowy

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The paper attempts to synthesize and revise the views on wishing and congratulating as specific speech acts which are represented in Polish by the performative verbs życzę, życzymy ‘I/we wish’, winszuję, winszujemy ‘I/we congratulate’, by optative formulas based on aspect operators (niech, oby, aby, żeby ‘let’, ‘so that’ &c.), and sometimes also by imperative sentences. It examines the conditions of fortuitousness of the wishes and their illocutive value, and especially the quite questionable honorific function of wishing formulas, and their connection with the linguistic relics of primitive magical thinking. The proposed interpretations emphasize the cultural and pragmatic function of wishes, rooted in history and tradition.
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This essay showcases the results of a survey conducted on a sample of Italian speakers which focused on their perception of languages. The research, carried out in the second half of 2019, has enabled corroborating the initial hypothesis about the existence of preconceptions and stereotypes associated with the perception of foreign languages and cultures (Elman & McClelland 1986) by Italian people. In particular, a questionnaire was used to clarify which adjectives are commonly associated with selected foreign languages, in order to identify certain trends and stereotypes. The survey is based on ethnolinguistic and language education studies (Cardona 2006), and was performed through data collection techniques used in ethnography and sociolinguistics (Tagliamonte 2006).
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The understanding of the concept LANGUAGE among young people in Lithuania and Lithuanians living abroadThis article applies the methodology developed by the Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin to analyse how the concept LANGUAGE (Lith. KALBA) is understood by young people in Lithuania and how its understanding changes when a person lives far away from their homeland. A comparison of replies from the two groups indicates that the social aspect has the most weight in both of them, as the difference in the percentage of mentions of this aspect was quite small. Lithuanians living abroad tend to stress the cultural and the psychosocial aspects much more; they find the connection with other Lithuanians very important. The survey of young people in Lithuania reveals a more distinct ideological aspect of LANGUAGE, and the historical and political aspects, even though they occur rarely, are still present, while the replies from the respondents living abroad lack the latter two. However, the survey of Lithuanian emigrants has uncovered a locative aspect, which is not present among the respondents living in the country. Young people in Lithuania have a somewhat broader understanding of the concept: when they think about language, they are already beginning to look for other possibilities of linguistic expression, noting that language is more than just sounds or words, but also includes gestures; they also mention programming languages. Rozumienie pojęcia JĘZYK wśród litewskiej młodzieży i Litwinów za granicąNiniejszy artykuł, oparty na metodologii lubelskiej szkoły etnolingwistycznej, ukazuje, jak pojęcie JĘZYK (lit. KALBA) jest rozumiane przez współczesnych młodych mieszkańców Litwy i jak zmienia się jego konceptualizacja, gdy osoby przebywają przez dłuższy czas z dala od ojczyzny. Porównanie odpowiedzi obu grup respondentów uwidoczniło, że badani najliczniej przypisują językowi aspekt społeczny i  różnica procentowa w wyborze tego kryterium w obu grupach nie jest duża. Emigranci litewscy mocniej natomiast wyróżniają aspekt kulturowy i  psychospołeczny języka, dla nich relacje z innymi Litwinami są bardzo ważne. W odpowiedziach studentów mieszkających na Litwie często występuje aspekt ideologiczny języka, rzadziej – historyczny i polityczny, a w odpowiedziach emigrantów takich aspektów nie ma, chociaż można tu z kolei wyróżnić aspekt lokatywny, który nie zaznaczył się w ankietach respondentów z Litwy. Młodzież z Litwy język rozumie nieco szerzej: stara się szukać innych możliwości ekspresji językowej, uważa, że pojęcie JĘZYK obejmuje nie tylko dźwięki lub słowa, ale i gesty, a nawet języki programowania.
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The linguocultural image of hand in Polish folk languageThe goal of this paper is a reconstruction of the linguocultural image of ręka (hand) in the Polish folk language, as defined by a cognitive model proposed by Bartmiński in the 1980’s. Among the sources considered here are the linguistic system itself (as exemplified by dictionaries of the Polish language, etymological dictionaries, dialect dictionaries) as well as literary texts, including folk songs and prose (e.g. riddles, sayings, fairy tales), and folk traditions and beliefs, recorded in the FOLBAS computer base and in the UMCS Ethnolinguistic Archives. From all these sources there emerges a rich and complex image showing this part of the body mainly from a functional perspective and appreciation of its role in Polish folk culture.
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