Słownik ludowych stereotypów językowych. Założenia ogólne
THE DICTIONARY OF LINGUISTIC FOLK STEREOTYPES.

Summary/Abstract: The author discusses basic assumptions of The Dictionary of Linguistic Folk Stereotypes currently in preparation in the Department of Polish at Maria Curie- -Skłodowska University, Lublin. Aiming at a reconstruction of culture by means of linguistic methods and basing both on printed material and present-day recordings, this ethnolinguistic dictionary will contain Polish folklore texts, dialectal variants as well as ethnographers’ observations relating to beliefs and various rnodes of behaviour. An outline of the Dictionary has been presented in a trial volume Słownik językowych stereotypów ludowych (The Dictionary of Linguistic Folk Stereotypes), Wrocław 1980. According to the conception of such a dictionary developed there, a stereotype is defined as a fixed combination of semantic and/or formal elements, or, to put it differently, a combination of the plane of content and/or the plane of expression, whereby the main target of the description is not linguistic expressions per se but rather their semantic correlates, i.e. mental entities (linguistic and cultural images of things) mediating in the relation language — reality. Al- though the idea of the Dictionary draws on the concept of the stereotype as pro- posed by W. Lippmann and H. Putnam and reflects the postulates laid down by A. Wierzbicka and the so-called prototype semantic, it should not be identified with either of these conceptions. Rather what lies at its foundation is the so-called ”cognitive definition” as developed by J. Bartmiński in the paper “Definicja kognitywna” (The “Cognitive Definition”) in: J. Bartmiński (ed.) Konotacja, Lublin, UMCS, 1988, and applied in more than forty M. A. theses written in the years 1977—1987, in the Department of Polish at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University, Lublin.

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