Medycyna narracyjna z perspektywy lingwistyki i poetyki kognitywnej
Narrative medicine from the perspective of cognitive linguistics and poetics

Author(s): Marta Chojnacka-Kuraś
Subject(s): Philology
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: cognitive linguistics; cognitive poetics; narrative medicine
Summary/Abstract: The article presents the principles and methods of narrative medicine (the approach in medicine propagated by Rita Charon from the Columbia University) from the perspective of selected fields in cognitive linguistics (including the Ronald Langacker’s model of cognitive grammar and the conceptual metaphor theory by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson) and cognitive poetics (according to Elżbieta Tabakowska and Peter Stockwell). The contexts of the considerations are biopsychological paradigm of medicine and some publications of Polish doctors (Jan Masłowski and Andrzej Szczeklik) who touch upon the humanistic aspects of medicine (such as the role of language in the doctor-patient communication and the ability to listen attentively to the patient), so crucial in the Charon’s concept of narrative medicine.

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