Emblematy kultury polskiej z perspektywy cudzoziemców
Polish culture emblems from the perspective of foreigners

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the article is to present the foreign reception of features and emblematic phenomena of Polish lingua- and socioculture based on the analysis of three guide books: S. Möller’s 2006, L. Klos Sokol’s 2010 and F. Vaucher’s 2016 one, and to assess the usefulness of this type of sources in the search for typical elements of our cultural portrait. The analysis of the publications in question was one of the stages of research (as part of the Emblems of Polish culture – the lexicon concept project) on various perspectives in the perception of the specificity of broadly understood Polishness, the knowledge of which is necessary in the work on extracting and negotiating phenomena that can obtain the status of Polish culture emblems. The presented considerations show, among others, that an important benefit of reception of cultural experiences of foreigners is their “innovative” view of phenomena usually resulting from well-developed intercultural skills. Foreigners can be valuable cultural mediators, especially when in the process of getting accustomed to otherness they are able to explain it with a humorous distance, which helps to build bridges between cultures.

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