Słowa klucze, kulturemy, koncepty kulturowe

The author presents two ways of understanding the term “keywords” – IT (a word for indexing the content of documents and searching for information), and linguistic (a word characteristic for a given text identified with a “thematic word”). The writer revises the way of defining the term and concepts, asks the question about the context of the term “keywords – for what?” and organizes authors’ works in order, according to references to: the singular text, the work of one author, one functional style or one discipline, as well to all available literature, and the whole national culture. In the last reference, the scope of keywords overlaps the category of “culturemes”. For the author, the most interesting research perspective is to refer the keywords to the world of values, treating them as “cultural concepts”.