Circle of diseases in linguistic consciousness and medical tradition of Russians: classification experience based on the dictionary by V.I. Dal (summary)
Keywords:
linguistic and cultural approach, circle of ilnesses, folk medicine, linguistic consciousness, cultural discourse, language as an anthropological phenomena, cultural semantics, medical experienceAbstract
The research, highlighted in the article, is concentrated on detection and systematization of the names of diseases, which are present in the “Explanatory Dictionary of the Living Great Russian Language” by V.I. Dal. The idea of classification, made in this research, is realized in the perspective of medical anthropology and is based on the integrative criteria, cumulating cultural, anthropological and medical components.
