Formal methods in the modern Polish ethnolinguistics and their Russian origins and parallels
The paper analyzes a formal method of description of the language of folklore, in particular the facet model of Prof. Jerzy Bartmiński. This model is grounded in his general theory of the so-called "cognitive definition". The model was primarily utilized in the “Dictionary of national stereotypes and symbols” (“Słownik stereotypów i symboli ludowych”), edited by Bartminski. The origins of this model go back to the American cognitive linguistics and theory of stereotypes, and to the Soviet structural linguistics. Bartmiński was evidently inspired by formal methods of lexicographic description, especially, by the models offered by Mel'chuk and Apresian. Bartmiński's research has contemporary Russian parallels, most notably Nikitina’s model of thesaurus describing the language of folklore (used by Zavyalova as well), and the work of Khrolenko and his school. My own research methods describing the onomastics of folklore are partially derived from the model of Bartmiński
