Cognitive linguistics has developed a specific methodological and conceptual apparatus which is reflected in its terminology. This paper presents some basic concepts which occur in Langacker's cognitive grammar (imagery, profiling) and Lakovian theory of metaphor (conceptual metaphor, metaphorical mapping, image-schema), and their realisation in Slovene and Polish. Analysis of cognitivist terminology shows that some of the concepts in Polish and Slovene linguistics may each develop in their own way.
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