Bartosz Pietrzak, Ph.D., works at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His interests lie in Cultural Linguistics and Frame Semantics research in Semitic languages. He studies the cultural conceptualizations encoded in the formulas of the Language of Early Arabic Poetry, as well as in modern Arabic dialects, Modern Hebrew, and Maltese.

• Early Arabic Poetry and its language as an index for self-identification; methodology of Cultural Linguistics; anthropological data on honor; pre-Islamic Arabic code of honor: being karīm; generosity-honorability metonymy; karāma-honor paid to equals; ḥasab-value of honorability; šaraf-honor-precedence is elevated place; ˁirḍ is personal honor; embodiment of ˁirḍ is body; shame-dishonor model; model of honor; model of social evaluation of worthiness; Arabic-European contrast

Bartosz Pietrzak, Ph.D., works at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His interests lie in Cultural Linguistics and Frame Semantics research in Semitic languages. He studies the cultural conceptualizations encoded in the formulas of the Language of Early Arabic Poetry, as well as in modern Arabic dialects, Modern Hebrew, and Maltese.

• Early Arabic Poetry and its language as an index for self-identification; methodology of Cultural Linguistics; anthropological data on honor; pre-Islamic Arabic code of honor: being karīm; generosity-honorability metonymy; karāma-honor paid to equals; ḥasab-value of honorability; šaraf-honor-precedence is elevated place; ˁirḍ is personal honor; embodiment of ˁirḍ is body; shame-dishonor model; model of honor; model of social evaluation of worthiness; Arabic-European contrast

Bartosz Pietrzak, Ph.D., works at the Jagiellonian University in Cracow, Poland. His interests lie in Cultural Linguistics and Frame Semantics research in Semitic languages. He studies the cultural conceptualizations encoded in the formulas of the Language of Early Arabic Poetry, as well as in modern Arabic dialects, Modern Hebrew, and Maltese.

• Early Arabic Poetry and its language as an index for self-identification; methodology of Cultural Linguistics; anthropological data on honor; pre-Islamic Arabic code of honor: being karīm; generosity-honorability metonymy; karāma-honor paid to equals; ḥasab-value of honorability; šaraf-honor-precedence is elevated place; ˁirḍ is personal honor; embodiment of ˁirḍ is body; shame-dishonor model; model of honor; model of social evaluation of worthiness; Arabic-European contrast