Specjalizacja znaczenia wybranych terminów medycznych na przykładzie czasopism branżowych

Abstract

Semantic transformations in a selection of medical terms on the example of medical journals Summary Medical discourse and medical lexicon are virtually unexplored in the field of Polish linguistics. Hence, the aim of this article is to analyse medical terminology, with particular emphasis put on the methods of creating new terms, i.e. such terminology mechanisms that lead to the development and enrichment of the terminology in question. The study is based on a set of terms and their specific contexts drawn from two journals: “Medical Tribune” and “Medycyna po Dyplomie”. It presents a number of Polish medical terms that have undergone the process of meaning specialisation, focuses on the enormous role of nouns and prepositional phrases in semantic derivation, as well as reveals a word polysemy in medical terminology.