VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPT “EATING DISORDER” IN FEMINIST ESSAYS

Abstract

The article is devoted to the analysis of the means representing the concept of EATING DISORDER. The material of the investigation consists in four feminist essays that examine the relationship between eating disorders and the policy of the Western patriarchal society in relation to the standardization of the female body and the canons of beauty. Feminist essays point out that the concept of feminine beauty has ceased to be an aesthetic phenomenon, and the standardization that is being imposed by the beauty industry leads to the emergence of diseases of the XX-XXI centuries associated with mental disorders - eating disorders. The concept of EATING DISORDER is complex in its structure, its immediate components are such hyponymic microconcepts as ANOREXIA, BULIMIA and BINGE EATING DISORDER. Each micro-concept is formed by a field model, according to which it contains the core and the periphery. The core of the microconcept is represented by lexical units that have the usual meaning of the symptoms of the varieties of eating disorders, such as "refusal to eat", "overeating". Their periphery is verbalized by vocabulary, realizing these meanings occasionally. In the feminist essays we analyze the verbalization of all three microconcepts. The most widely represented is the micro-concept ANOREXIA, and the least is BINGE EATING DISORDER. These microconcepts in the texts are actualized explicitly. The concept EATING DISORDERS is verbalized in terms of social and psychological causes of this disease. Social cause is revealed in the ideal of the beauty of modern society, which is a young extremely thin woman (anorexia, bulimia). Psychological cause lies in the fact that a person "eats" problems, that is, food becomes a means of psychological distraction from something unpleasant (bulimia, compulsive overeating). Thus, the problem of eating disorders is important in feminist publicistic discourse.

Keywords

• концепт
• порушення харчової поведінки
• анорексія
• булемія
• компульсивне переїдання