VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF DISEASE AND ANIMAL DISEASE IN ENGLISH
VERBALIZATION OF THE CONCEPTS OF DISEASE AND ANIMAL DISEASE IN ENGLISH

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the comprehensive review of the concepts of DISEASE and ANIMAL DISEASE and means of their verbalization in English. The material for the study were articles from dictionaries, texts of medical discourse, the works of foreign researchers on this issue. The use of descriptive and comparative methods, etymological and contextual analyzes contributed to the selection of semantic and cognitive features of the DISEASE concept, substantiation of the peculiarities of its verbalization. There are three most common units in the lexical-semantic series of the DISEASE concept: "disease", "illness", "sickness". A comparative analysis of these tokens within the lexical-semantic field "disease" in English showed that they have a common semantic feature: "health problems, physiological or mental disorders." The DISEASE concept exists in both scientific and naive pictures of the world, but the ways of its expression differ significantly. In the scientific medical field, the concept of "disease" occupies a prominent position. The terms "illness", "sickness" are mainly used by naive native speakers mainly on a daily basis. In the English veterinary terminology, only three nominations are used to denote animal diseases: "disease", "sickness" and "illness" with the dominance of the token "disease".

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