Informacja kulturowa w ogólnym słowniku języka polskiego, czyli jeszcze o tradycji okiem leksykografa

The aim of the article is to discuss whether additional cultural information, explicitly formulated, i.e. apart from definitions in some types of entries and apart from linguistic material (collocations and quotations), should be included in a general monolingual dictionary. On the example of a few lexical units from the semantic field ‘Tradition’ the author points out that this kind of explanations will be valuable from the perspective of an intercultural and intergenerational mediation. As it appears, the elements of cultural description have to be divided between various fields of the microstructure of entries and, alas, the pattern of cultural information for the analyzed units should not be repeated. The author postulates another solution for some methodological problems which can be an additional field, allocated for the cultural information and closely connected with the definition.