HUMANITARIAN RESEARCHES

Journal of fundamental and applied researches

THE VERBAL METAPHORS IN RUSSIAN MEDICAL TERMINOLOGY

2021. №2, pp. 20-25

Veklich Marina V. - Astrakhan State University

The aim of the research is to study the verbalization of medical knowledge, metaphorical nomination as one of the ways to replenish the Russian medical dictionary in medical texts from different historical periods, using the material of verbsterms. Thanks to the scenario approach, a cognitive scenario of the verbs of medical care is described, which includes three scenes in general and is concretized in the meanings of the verbs used. The synchronous-diachronic research method made it possible to draw a conclusion about the productivity of metaphorical transfer in a medical text, since this is a way of creating a special verb vocabulary and terms that is characteristic of all periods of the development of the national medical dictionary. The results of the work can be used in further cognitive research of medical care verbs and verb terms.

Key words: verb, verb-term, metaphor, metaphorical nomination, metaphorical model, sources of metaphorical nomination, cognitive function of metaphor, cognitive scenario, scenario approach

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