O chorobie w języku polskim i angielskim – rozważania wstępne

• Authors: Cichmińska Monika

Title variants

EN

The language of illness and disease in polish and English - preliminary remarks

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The present article is a preliminary examination of the language of disease and illness in English and Polish. We present the basic syntactic structures used in both the languages to talk about „having a disease”, discuss the differences and similarities in the two languages, and also touch upon the different conceptualizations of disease these linguistic forms bring about. In general it seems that both in Polish and English the ways of talking about disease and illness are quite similar as they both represent the so-called Western approach to medicine.

Keywords

PL

choroba; język choroby; konceptualizacja; metafora konceptualna

EN

disease; language of disease; conceptualisation; conceptual metaphor

• Publisher: Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie
• Journal: Prace Językoznawcze
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 13
• Pages: 47-53

Contributors

author

Cichmińska Monika

• Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w Olsztynie