O kartografowaniu faktów etnolingwistycznych
ON THE CARTOGRAPHY OF ETHNOLINGUISTIC FACTS

Summary/Abstract: Because cartographic methods are utilized to represent linguistic, cultural and textual data, a question is asked whether the folk genre of descriptions of dreams is geographically diversified, i.e. whether or not the explications of dreams have stable regional boundaries in Poland. Cartographic mapping is performed on explications (i.e. generalized semantic and structural components) concerning five dream images: fire, horses, lice, eggs and Virgin Mary. Tentative results, based on data from seventy one places, suggest that (1) explications of dreams do not exhibit clear geographical diversification, which means that they have achieved a high degree of stabilization over the whole ethnic territory; and (2) the geographical range of certain explications, e.g. fire being a prediction of sunny weather, can nevertheless be delimited.

• Details
• Contents