O śląskiej frazeologii i paremiologii toponimicznej – raz jeszcze

Abstract

The article is a special continuation of the paper published in the previous volume of Studia Linguistica entitled “A little motherland” in the Light of Phraseology and Paremiology of Silesian Dialects. It contains the analysis of those phraseological units and proverbs found in dictio- naries documenting Silesian dialects which refer to the so-called rest of the world, namely the world which is not ‘a little motherland’ of a Silesian, but is situated outside its borders. The components of presented units are the names of Polish and foreign towns, regions, European and non-European countries, adjectives derived from these toponyms, as well as nouns de- noting the inhabitants of countries (ethnonyms). The units have been presented in the order which made it possible to show the spreading - in a geographical sense - of this world. Thus, the presentation of ‘the rest of the world’ contains the point of view of a Silesian, for whom ‘the little motherland’ is located in the centre of the world, while everything outside of it is perceived as more or less remote places. Silesian phraseology and paremiology presented in the article cannot become the basis for any far-reaching opinions on the image of this ‘rest of the world.’