Cultural Conceptualization of siberia in Spanish Corpora

This chapter focuses on the cultural conceptualization of Siberia transmitted by linguistic units in Spanish corpora: Diachronic Corpus of Spanish (CORDE), Corpus of Contemporary Spanish (CREA), and the Corpus of the Spanish of the XXI Century (CORPES XXI). The main research method is the cognitive approach, based on the ethnolinguistic principles of Jerzy Bartmiński, who founded the Ethnolinguistic School of Lublin. The content side of the interaction of language and culture is represented in stereotypes. Stereotyped features assist in reconstructing the linguistic image of the world. In this sense, a key analytic tool that helps us show the culturally embedded knowledge is the cognitive definition. The cognitive definition determines the peculiarities of the conceptualization of Siberia by the representatives of Spanish culture.