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Din Terminologia Medicală Populară
From The Popular Medical Terminology

Author(s): Denisa-Maria Tout
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Semantics, Health and medicine and law
Published by: Editura U. T. Press
Keywords: popular medicine; therapeutic magic; terminology; etymologic and semantic viewpoint;

Summary/Abstract: The study in discussion focuses on the presentation of different popular medical terms referring to contagious diseases. The category presented includes lexical particularities as well as magical practices that some people use to cure diseases. The linguistic area includes a variety of words of from the terminology of the above mentioned field, so the ampleness of the material permits us to analyse the terms and syntagms. Therefore, the study is going to focus on this terminology, mostly from an etymological and lexico-semantic viewpoint.

  • Issue Year: XXX/2021
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 115-124
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian