34 LaMiCuS 2017 no. 1 1 Adam Głaz Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (UMCS) Lublin, Poland Worldview as cultural cognition Worldview is deined in this study as the knowledge at the disposal of an individual or community and the point of view projected on the world with reference to that knowledge. An inquiry into world- views, manifested in and transmitted through the use of language, is proposed. In accordance with a basic tenet of cognitive linguistics, language use is underlain by and describable with recourse to cogni - tive processes. However, because of the focus on the cultural, as well as cognitive underpinning of language, worldview is understood here as cultural cognition, the latter being characterised by its distributed nature and by the cultural content that feeds cognitions. he latter of these properties is exempliied in the paper through an analysis of two diverse reactions to the 2016 Nice terrorist attack: it is shown what meanings emerge when such parameters of construal as degree of speci- icity ( granularity of viewing), mental scanning, focus selection, viewpoint, and attention to similarity vs. dif ference operate not on “raw” perceptual substrates, but on cultural concepts, such as political states, religions, or cultural areas. abstract