A “Slavic Austrian”: A Few Words on the Character of Slovenians

This article presents the results of a study on character for the selected semantic category of the linguistic and cultural stereotype of Slovenians. The database consists of responses to a survey that was conducted among selected Polish and Slovenian respondents. A comparison between autostereotypical and heterostereotypical perspectives provided a more complete picture of the linguistic and cultural image of Slovenians as part of the category character.