Mediating the Otherworld in Polish Folklore A Cognitive Linguistic Perspective

• Main Author: Masłowska, Ewa (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Bern Peter Lang International Academic Publishers 2020
• Series: Polish Studies - Transdisciplinary Perspectives 28
• Subjects: Semantics, discourse analysis, etc; Sociolinguistics; Historical & comparative linguistics; Lexicography; Cultural studies; Folklore, myths & legends; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; [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; zaświatów
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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.