Dziedzictwo niematerialne – językowe i symboliczne wyobrażenia więzi w polszczyźnie ogólnej i w kulturze ludowej

The author specified the notion of the national heritage in terms of the relationship of the language and the culture by accepting the collective memory, fixed in the semantic structure of words, the symbol and the ritual, as the starting point. Applying the theory of cognitive image schemas, the author sought to present the manner of functioning of structural metaphors: BOND is a CHAIN/THREAD/ TIE/UMBILICAL CORD) in both verbal and non-verbal (a symbolic gesture and ritual) communication. The symbolic image adds extrasensory meaning to commonness, due to which the language and the symbol co-create the cultural reality