| Summary: | The aim of the article is to give an account of certain Polish works relating to cognitive linguistics. The Polish cognitivist tradition is approached via three successive aspects: the sources, the divergences but also the convergences with the American school. To start with, the article refers to Jan Rozwadowski’s semantics which, in the early 20th century, developed the theoretical principles and particular notions later found in the works of R. Langacker, G. Lakoff and others. Secondly, the postulates of the Polish ethno-linguistic school are envisaged. This, while adhering to the cognitive current by its principles, diverges from it in the originality of its subject. Finally, in a convergent perspective, the article presents T. Krzeszowski’s axiological problematic which, as part of the American-inspired cognitive current, perfects G. Lakoff’s Idealized Cognitive Model by introducing the axiological component into it.
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