The need for textual evidence in reconstructing linguistic pictures of conceptual categories
The need for textual evidence in reconstructing linguistic pictures of conceptual categories

Summary/Abstract: The study responds to Jerzy Bartmiński’s call for using various kinds of data in doing ethnolinguistic research. The authors, thus, champion (i) the necessity of including textual data in reconstructing a linguistic worldview as well as (ii) a culturallyoriented non-systemic lexical semantics. That ethnolinguistic reconstruction cannot be based merely on dictionarylike information is shown by a critical assessment of purely systemic analyses of hussy, pheasant, and maid. It is concluded that textual evidence should be extensively explored and systematically used in cognitive ethnolinguistics as primary, rather than as supplementary data.

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