SPOKEN-LANGUAGE EFFECTS IN 16-17TH CENTURY MEDICAL PRESCRIPTIONS

• Authors: Kuna Agnes
• Languages of publication: HU

Abstracts

EN

This paper introduces medical prescriptions as a distinct text type, on the basis of 16-17th century Hungarian examples. The primary communicative function of medical prescriptions is giving instructions, a function that occurs in widely divergent forms in those early text samples. Old prescriptions did not have a constant and predefined structure. Nevertheless, in most cases, they began with an initiator, followed by the list of components and procedures required, and were often concluded by a note serving persuasion. The world of the text was complex, the sender and the recipient were not as clear-cut as they are today (doctor and pharmacist, respectively). Further components of the world of text (point of view, temporal and spatial structures, etc.) require further study, involving pragmatic aspects, too. Another interesting field of research could be the analysis of related instructional texts (like cooking recipes, gardening manuals, etc.).

Keywords

EN

INSTRUCTION; INSTRUCTIONAL TEXT; MEDICAL PRESCRIPTION; PRAGMATICS; SPOKEN LANGUAGE

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Committee on Hungarian Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 131
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 470-479
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kuna Agnes

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Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

11HUAAAA090433