Concept of the folk in the dictionaries of the Serbian (Serbo-Croatian) language

The paper analyzes the concept of the FOLK in the Serbian language in accordance with the methodological foundations of the Lublin Ethnolinistic School. The introduction gives an overview of selected papers dealing with the terminological and theoretical aspects of the concepts FOLK, NATION and COUNTRY, as basic socio-political categories, with the aim of comparing the naive linguistic picture of these concepts with their conception in contemporary anthropological, sociological and political approaches. In the main part of the article, the systemic language material from all the relevant dictionaries of the Serbian (Serbo-Croatian language) is considered on the data related to the main lexem folk, wich names the concept, its synonyms, hypernyms, co-hyponyms, semantic and grammatical derivatives, attributes and collocations. It was found that the seme of ?community? (of people) appears as the superior term (hypernym) for this concept in the definitions. The content of the concept of the FOLK has been reconstructed by pointing to relevant aspects (biological/genetic, social/political/ economic, physical) and thus reffering to basic values that are generally positive in the Serbian language.