O śląskiej frazeologii i paremiologii toponimicznej – raz jeszcze
On Silesian Phraseology and Toponymic Paremiology – Once Again

Summary/Abstract: The article is a special continuation of the paper published in the previous volume of StudiaLinguistica entitled “A little motherland” in the Light of Phraseology and Paremiology of SilesianDialects. It contains the analysis of those phraseological units and proverbs found in dictionaries documenting Silesian dialects which refer to the so-called rest of the world, namely theworld which is not ‘a little motherland’ of a Silesian, but is situated outside its borders. Thecomponents of presented units are the names of Polish and foreign towns, regions, Europeanand non-European countries, adjectives derived from these toponyms, as well as nouns denoting the inhabitants of countries (ethnonyms). The units have been presented in the orderwhich made it possible to show the spreading – in a geographical sense – of this world. Thus,the presentation of ‘the rest of the world’ contains the point of view of a Silesian, for whom‘the little motherland’ is located in the centre of the world, while everything outside of it isperceived as more or less remote places. Silesian phraseology and paremiology presented inthe article cannot become the basis for any far-reaching opinions on the image of this ‘rest ofthe world.’

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