- Tytuł:
- From leech to doctor: The Lexical and Semantic Evolution of Terms for ‘physician’ in Non-Medical Prose Texts
- Autorzy:
- Maja, Gajek,
- Powiązania:
- https://bibliotekanauki.pl/articles/888962.pdf
- Data publikacji:
- 2020-09-14
- Wydawca:
- Uniwersytet Warszawski. Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
- Tematy:
-
medical terminology
medieval medicine
professions
semantic change
physician - Opis:
- The study examines five names of medieval medical practitioners: barber, doctor, leech, physician, and surgeon. The aim is to view the semantic change of those names in non-medical prose texts from the Middle English period. The analysis also considers their origin, frequency, semantic fields, function and both metaphorical and non-metaphorical meanings in Middle English and later. Furthermore, the research verifies to what extent the findings of Sylwanowicz (2003) are confirmed by the results of a similar examination of a non-medical corpus. The data for the study come from the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose, with the support of historical dictionaries.
- Źródło:
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Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies; 2020, 29/2; 73-90
0860-5734 - Pojawia się w:
- Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
- Dostawca treści:
- Biblioteka Nauki
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