Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1817-7115 (Print)
ISSN 2541-898X (Online)


lexical-semantic field «Disease»

Structural and Functional Peculiarities of the Lexical-Semantic Field «Disease» in Conversational Discourse (on the Material of Spontaneous Informal Speech of Physicians)

The article focuses on the analysis of some social and professional group discourse from the viewpoint of semantic fields theory. The peculiarities of the lexical-semantic field «Disease» are described based on the material of spontaneous informal conversational discourse of physicians; the structural and functional analysis of the field in question is given.