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The need for textual evidence in reconstructing linguistic pictures of conceptual categories
The need for textual evidence in reconstructing linguistic pictures of conceptual categories

Author(s): Przemysław Łozowski, Anna Włodarczyk-Stachurska
Subject(s): Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Marii Curie-Sklodowskiej
Keywords: cognitive ethnolinguistics; linguistic worldview; lexical semantics; language and culture

Summary/Abstract: The study responds to Jerzy Bartmiński’s call for using various kinds of data in doing ethnolinguistic research. The authors, thus, champion (i) the necessity of including textual data in reconstructing a linguistic worldview as well as (ii) a culturallyoriented non-systemic lexical semantics. That ethnolinguistic reconstruction cannot be based merely on dictionarylike information is shown by a critical assessment of purely systemic analyses of hussy, pheasant, and maid. It is concluded that textual evidence should be extensively explored and systematically used in cognitive ethnolinguistics as primary, rather than as supplementary data.

  • Issue Year: 27/2015
  • Issue No: 27
  • Page Range: 87-102
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: English