Frazeologiczne zaplecze językowego obrazu świata

PHRASEOLOGICAL BACKGROUND OF THE LINGUISTIC WORLDVIEW

The author poses the fundamental question for theoretical phraseology and ethnolin-guistics, what in fact – i.e. what verbal matter – creates language phraseology, and thus on what material basis ethnolinguists are trying to recreate the language images of selected fragments of reality. In search of answers, the author reaches back to the times of primary orality, the Literacy Theory and the research of Walter J. Ong, Mil-man Perry, Albert B. Lord and Eric A. Havelock on the formulas of human pre-literal statements. The author concludes that the formulas are not limited to Homeric epics and Balkan guslar songs, but that it is holistic in nature, it has embraced all forms of human communication in the past, and its contemporary evidence is the most widely understood phraseology (including paremiology). Thus, the author proves the right-ness of Andrzej Bogusławski’s thesis about the existence of many millions of fixed multi-word units in language resources, codified lexicographically only minimally. This sheds new light on the phraseological basis of ethnolinguistic reconstructions of the linguistic worldview (language picture of the world).