Strukturalno-semantyczna analiza nazw białostockich gabinetów rehabilitacji/fizjoterapii. Część 1: wprowadzenie

This paper is concerned with the lexis belonging to the semantic field of rehabilitacja ‘rehabilitation’. It discusses the distinction between rehabilitacja ‘rehabilitation’ and fizjoterapia ‘physiotherapy’, and defines the two lexemes in order to establish the specific properties of the semantic field under analysis. The discussion refers to the findings of other researchers of chrematonymy, who consider this area of onomastics to be a cultural and linguistic phenomenon. Such theoretical background enables me to propose a three-part model of the chrematonym of an economic activity of a natural person on the basis of the names of rehabilitation/physiotherapy rooms. A detailed analysis of the analysed examples is presented in the second part of the paper.