Stereotypes about Poland in the German worldview in the 19th century : an ethnolinguistic analysis

The aim of this paper is to discuss the ethnolinguistic approach to stereotypes research proposed by Jerzy Bartmiński as compared to other cognitive theories and to analyse the stereotypes about Poland, and the Poles in the German worldview in the 19th century. The ethnolinguistic analysis focuses mainly on the reconstruction of the meaning of the stereotypes about Poland, and the Poles as well as on the determining their most typical profiles, and on the description of the change in these stereotypes throughout the 19th century. The material of the analysis consists of idiomatic expressions and metaphors taken from lexicographical resources and from DWDS Corpus (Textarchiv 1800–1900)