Lexemic change and semantic shift in disease names.
Lexemic change and semantic shift in disease names.
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10.1007/bf00114693
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1979-03-01
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Kay, M
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Kay, M
墨西哥裔美国妇女使用的疾病术语词汇受到西班牙语和英语两种语言的影响，也受到几种卫生系统共存的影响。当人们参与不同的卫生系统时，随着干扰和代码转换的增加，可能会发现这些变化的语言学证据。在其他情况下，同源词是从英语疾病名称中创造出来的。一些现在不再有用的术语被删除了。最后，一些在英语或科学医学理论中没有对应词的西班牙语疾病名称可能会保留，但这些词本身的含义会发生变化。这种转变的方向是朝着与科学医学概念的语义对应。医学词汇的变化反映了一种新的医学文化。
The lexicon of illness terms used by Mexican American women is affected by the practice of speaking both Spanish and English and by the coexistence of several health systems. When there is changning participation in various health systems, with increasing interference and code switching, linguistic evidence for these changes may be found. In some cases an English disease name is borrowed. In others, a cognate is coined from an English disease name. Some terms, now no longer useful, are dropped. Finally, some Spanish disease names which do not have equivalents in English or in scientific medical theory may be retained, but there is a shift in the meaning of the words themselves. The direction of the shift is towards semantic correspondence with the concepts of scientific medicine. In these ways the medical lexicon is changed, with the changes reflecting a new medical culture.