FIELD STRUCTURE OF PROFESSIONAL LINGUISTIC CONSIOUSNESS

Abstract

The article presents the author's methodology for researching such phenomenon as “professionally determined linguistic consciousness” in various groups of physicians. Three kinds of texts have been used as research material: written scientific discourse, oral scientific discourse, and colloquial speech of physicians. The obtained data have been compared with the data of the direct associative experiment which has been conducted in two groups of informants – medical workers and non-medical workers (as a control group). As a result, the described material demonstrated that it has a structural representation in the form of an associative-semantic field “Disease”. “Disease” is the key concept of medicine, reflecting the pathology of a living organism growth and development.

Keywords

• linguistic consciousness of physicians
• professional determinism
• discourse
• associative experiment
• языковое сознание медиков
• профессиональная детерминированность
• дискурс
• ассоциативный эксперимент