THE IDEAS AND ACHIEVEMENTS OF THE ETHNOLINGUISTIC SCHOOL OF LUBLIN AND THE NEW PERSPECTIVES TO THE BULGARIAN LINGUISTICS

e aim of the article is to present the main ideas and some of the contemporary achievements of thescholars of the so-called Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin, founded and led by Jerzy Bartminski. The author focuses on its cognitive orientation and, as a confirmation of such orientation, points out and describes in detail its main research objects: language worldview, stereotype, cognitive definition, value, perspective, profiling and subject. The text of the article presents also the main scientific publications and projects realized by the Polish ethnolinguists. Much attention is paid to the EUROJOS project, which studies the axiospheres of the Slavs and their European neighbors. The main aim of the project is to work out cognitive definitions of conceptual values, traditional for Slavic and European culture, such as home, freedom, work, Europe, honor and more. As a result of the project work, 5 volumes of the Axiological Lexicon of the Slavs and their Neighbors were published. In conclusion, the author presents some new perspectives that are revealed to the Bulgarian linguistics in connection with the ideas and experience of scientists from the Polish Lublin Ethnolinguistic School. For example, the author thinks that it is possible to proceed with the creation of a Bulgarian dictionary of folk stereotypes and symbols following the model of the dictionary created by the scientists in Lublin, as well as to realize a research project to study the contemporary Bulgarian language of values and to proceed with the development of the Bulgarian Axiological Lexicon