FOLK-MEDICINE TERMS AS A WINDOW TO ENGLISH CULTURAL SPECIFICITY.
Keywords:
folk medicine, English language, cultural specificity, cultural history, medical anthropology, semantics, metaphor, ethno-linguistics.Abstract
Folk medicine terms in the English language carry with them a unique cultural lens. A study into their etymology, semantic shifts, and metaphorical underpinning may go a long way toward suggesting something of value regarding the historical, social, and psychological position of the Anglophone cultures. The present study is going to attempt to explain how terms denoting common ailments, treatments, and prevention form some sort of tapestry of beliefs, values, and fears that have shaped English culture through many centuries.
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