The author reviews contemporary cultural linguistics (as one of the fields of anthropological lin- guistics) in two Slavic regions: Poland and Eastern Europe. The first part of the article discusses the general theoretical foundations of cultural linguistics, as well as the circumstances in which it was established in Poland and Eastern Europe (USSR). In the second part, the author discusses the dis- tinguishing features of both these linguistic traditions. So, he writes that, in Eastern Europe, re- searchers are more interested in linguoculturology, particularly in the description of concepts and the so-called conceptosphere. In Poland, there is a stronger tradition of folk culture research, folk psychology and folk language. For this reason, the methodology of Polish research is based to a greater extent on empirical procedures, such as field research and surveys.