Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore
A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective
Abstract
This book analyses the ways of conceptualising and interpreting the interaction between physical and metaphysical worlds in Polish folklore. A linguistic and anthropological analysis offered in this study focuses primarily on myth, ritual and symbol as reflected in language (dialect lexis, phraseology, speech acts). Employing the methodology and analytical tools of cognitive linguistics (preconceptual image schemas, cognitive scene, profiling of concepts, development of cognitive paths), the author reconstructs mental patterns at the heart of mythical thinking, linguistic actions and symbolic meanings, which reflect universal conceptual schemas and may serve as models for intercultural studies.
Keywords
[2nd; Agade; Cognitive; edition]; extraterrestrial; Folklore; Four natural elements; języku; kulturze; Linguistic; Linguistic stereotypes; Ludowe; Masłowska; Mediating; Metaphysical worlds; obcowania; Otherworld; Perspective; Polish; Polish folk; polskiej; Preconceptual image schemas; reality; revised; stereotypy; świata; Symbolic thinking; Wydawnictwo; zaświatówDOI
10.3726/b15926ISBN
9783631796849, 9783631796856, 9783631796863, 9783631795125, 9783631796849Publisher website
https://www.peterlang.com/Publication date and place
Bern, 2020Series
Polish Studies – Transdisciplinary Perspectives, 28Classification
Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics
Sociolinguistics
Historical and comparative linguistics
Lexicography
Cultural studies
Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
Social and cultural anthropology