Cultura de los Cuidados (Jun 1999)

Semantic fields for a death from the nursing point of view

  • Ana Piera Orts

DOI
https://doi.org/10.14198/cuid.1999.6.08
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 0, no. 6
pp. 49 – 53

Abstract

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Death seen day after day in a hospital environment takes on a new shape, turning ordinary language into a speech full of euphemisms, creating a sort of special "nursing" semantic field which avoids the pronunciation of the word "death".

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