Podstawy metodologiczne semantyki kognitywno-antropologicznej (Refleksje w związku z publikacją „Leksykonu aksjologicznego Słowian i ich sąsiadów”)
Methodological basis of cognitive-anthropological semantics. The case of the Axiological Lexicon of Slavs and their Neighbours (vols. 1-5, 2015-2019)

Summary/Abstract: The article consists of two parts. The first, methodological part presents the goal of cognitive-anthropological research in opposition to structural semantics and describes successive steps that lead to that goal. The second part contains commentary on the Axiological Lexicon of Slavs and their Neighbours, especially volume 5, devoted to honour. The aim of semantic-structural research is to reconstruct the semantic-lexical system of a language (as code) serving interpersonal communication – in other words, it is to reconstruct the information that one may obtain through the use of the code. The aim of cognitive-anthropological semantics is to reconstruct the conceptualization of linguistically salient fragments of reality. The challenges that cognitive-anthropological linguists have to meet include: (1) the identitication of the object of conceptualization (the base concept/conceptual invariant); (2) a reconstruction of the image, conceptualization of that object in the minds of people who speak a given language. The latter challenge is met through an analysis of linguistic expressions connected with a given concept – the theory of lexical-semantic fields, the theory of interpretive frames and the theory of cognitive domains are used for the purpose. Both these issuses are discussed in the article.

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