Śląskie nazwy geograficzne jako przedmiot badań lingwistyki kulturowej

This article lies within the sphere of interests of cultural onomastics asa linguistic image of the world along with many semantic connotations arising from the population’s cultural experiences, knowledge, beliefs, value systems, and stereotypization. As exemplified by Silesian toponyms, proper names are shown as expressions of a linguistic image of the world, reflecting an everyday vision of the world, demonstrating its anthropocentric conceptualization and the ways of categorizing reality.