Przysłowia z komponentami Ormianin, Grek i Żyd w kontekście pamięci zbiorowej

The article ponders upon ethnic proverbs containing the ethnonyms Ormianin ‘Armenian’, Grek ‘Greek’and Żyd ‘Jew’, which constitute a peculiar collection of paremics determined by the former sociocultural context. The research material was collected using the NKJP and Google search engine. The paper aims at analysing the collected paremic items as carriers of ethnostereotypes, and to interpret them as textual realizations of the collective memory genre. I employ linguistic-cultural methods and the linguistics of memory in the analysis and description of the material, which allows the studied proverbs to be framed as a genre of memory participating in the transmission of images of the past. The study also takes into account the pragmatic functions of proverbs in contemporary identity discourse and the reinterpretation of meanings contained in the paremic items in question.