The image of folk medicine (lekarowanie) in Belarus in light of dialectalogical and ethnolinquistic studies Cover Image

Obraz ludowego lekarowania na Białorusi w świetle badań dialektologa i etnolingwisty
The image of folk medicine (lekarowanie) in Belarus in light of dialectalogical and ethnolinquistic studies

Author(s): Krystyna Szcześniak
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Łódzkie Towarzystwo Naukowe
Keywords: ethnolinguistic; dialectologist

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents the analysis of the Belarussian zamowy from the point of view of dialectologist or ethnolinguistic information source. These disclose the names of diseases, names of plants (which are so designata used in the treatment of folk lekarowanie and mentioned within the text, and also likely to be one and the other at the same time), the names of the treatments (przelewanie, zamawianie, etc.), and the names of the people performing them (znachor, wiedźma and others), including construction, structure of zamowa and various tokens used within it. The examples collected from the collected material prove that the texts of zamowy can be and are not yet explored wealth of dialectal Belarussian language features and enrich our understanding of ethnolinguistic on data stored in the circle theme.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 57
  • Page Range: 245-259
  • Page Count: 15
  • Language: Polish
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