Piotr Czerwiński, The sign and meaning. The prophecy semantics in harbingers, beliefs and folk predictions, Katowice: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego, 2020, pp. 240

Abstract

The presented monograph is of an interdisciplinary nature, since it combines the issues of cognitive ethnolinguistics, cultural linguistics, sociolinguistics, cultural semantics, medieval studies,folklore, mythology and examines verbal and iconic connotations and language in magical consciousness. The subject of analysis in the book of Peter Czerwiński is magic rituals, spells, dreams and visions, as well as the semantics of protective attributes, that is, amulets of various kinds. The book is a valuable contribution to research into the semiotic evaluation of prophecy and folk fortune-telling. This is a valuable study both for its thematic originality and for the variety of analyzed material and its interpretation.