Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Original sources of papers vii
5. Key to questionnaires viii
6. 1 The Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin and Anglo-American cognitive linguistics 1
7. 2 What is cognitive ethnolinguistics? 6
8. 3 Linguistic worldview and how to reconstruct it 22
9. 4 Values as the foundation of linguistic worldview 38
10. 5 The stereotype as an object of linguistic description 50
11. 6 The ‘cognitive definition’ in the description of stereotypes 67
12. 7 Viewpoint, perspective, and linguistic worldview 76
13. 8 Profiling and the subject-oriented interpretation of the world 88
14. 9 The subject’s viewpoint(s) in language, text, and discourse 95
15. 10 The stereotype of the sun in folk Polish 120
16. 11 The Polish stereotype of the mother: towards a cognitive definition 132
17. 12 The Polish DOM (house/home) in its physical, social, and cultural aspects 149
18. 13 The Polish OJCZYZNA (homeland): its base stereotype and ideological profiles 162
19. 14 Changes in the Polish stereotype of ‘a German’ 178
20. 15 Prawica ‘right wing’ and lewica ‘left wing’: profiles in contemporary discourse 199
21. 16 Varieties of fate: the Polish los and dola; the Russian sud’ba 204
22. 17 The conception of the linguistic worldview in comparative research 213
23. Afterword 222
24. References 224
25. Index 244