The Folk Medicine Concept in Vernacular English of the XIX Century
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2022
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Palchevska, Oleksandra
Luchyk, Alla
Aleksandruk, Iryna
Labenko, Oksana
Shabunina, Viktoriia
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The research is devoted to studying the Folk Medicine concept in English based on British ethnographic
and folklore materials, as well as dictionaries of dialects published in the XIX and early XX centuries.
The work aims to analyse the Folk Medicine concept and its representation as a component of the folk
world picture, verbalised in that time‟s medical language, the core of which is a set of folk nominations
used to denote folk names of diseases associated with ancient medical practices. On the periphery, folk
texts represent superstitions as necessary constituents of folk medical practices connected with the mentioned
nominal units. A comprehensive methodology of conceptual analysis allowed identifying the basic
ideas about Folk Medicine. Based on the statement that the meaningful component of the Folk Medicine
concept is realised in the folk consciousness, the key verbalised nominations‟ definitions denoting the disease
names, and their compatibility with adjectives and verbs, were analysed. The influence of medical
rites and rituals on the semantics of lexical units was proved. The analysis identified the basic semantic
features of the Folk Medicine concept, including ethnonymic, colourative, anthroponymic, mythological,
spatial and temporal components.
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Folk Medicine, vernacular English, concept, cultural concepts, cognitive activity, folk names of diseases, superstition, article
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The Folk Medicine Concept in Vernacular English of the XIX Century / Oleksandra Palchevska, Alla Luchyk, Iryna Aleksandruk, Oksana Labenko, Viktoriia Shabunina // Wisdom. - 2022. - Vol. 3, Issue 2. - P. 226-236. - https://doi.org/10.24234/wisdom.v3i2.690