Nuclear components of the conceptual framework 'medicine' in the mo­dern English language

A.A. Golubykh

Samara National Research University, Samara, 443086 Russia

E-mail: ana.golubykh@ya.ru

Received January 15, 2021

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DOI: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.1.130-141

For citation: Golubykh A.A. Nuclear components of the conceptual framework ‘medicine’ in the modern English language. Uchenye Zapiski Kazanskogo Universiteta. Seriya Gumanitarnye Nauki, 2021, vol. 163, no. 1, pp. 130–141. doi: 10.26907/2541-7738.2021.1.130-141. (In Russian)

Abstract

The conceptual framework ‘medicine’ within the English lexicographic, scientific, educational, and mass-media discourse was considered in this paper. The research was motivated by current medical innovations accompanied by word-coining contributing to the renewal of nuclear concepts and their semantic content within the conceptual framework ‘medicine’. The nuclear concepts of the above-mentioned conceptual framework focusing upon semantic, synonymic, and hyper-hyponymic features of medical nouns in English were studied and systematized. For this purpose, the methods of data collection, description, and classification of the empirical materials with elements of semantic and conceptual analysis were used. The key aspects of the modern conceptual framework ‘medicine’ were identified. It was discovered that the conceptual framework ‘medicine’ in the modern English lexicographic, scientific, educational, and mass-media types of discourse is basically actualized through the following nuclear concepts: ‘diseases’, ‘diagnostics and treatment methods’, and ‘drugs’. Interestingly, the nuclear concepts in all types of the English professional discourse enrich and develop the conceptual framework ‘medicine’ with medical terms related to the corresponding professional markers, synonyms, hyponyms, and hyperonyms. The results obtained provide both a valid background for better explanation, translation, and application of medical vocabulary in terms of modern lexicographic, scientific, educational, and mass-media communication strategies.

Keywords: conceptual framework ‘medicine’, nuclear concept, medical linguistic marker, synonymic and hyper-hyponymic relations, discourse

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Fig. 1. Semantic field structure of the conceptual framework ‘medicine’ in the lexicographic, scientific, educational, and mass-media types of discourse in the English language. Designations: 1 – nucleus; 2 – close periphery; 3 – far periphery.

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