Axiology of the myth about doctors
https://doi.org/10.18384/2310-712X-2022-3-28-37
Abstract
Aim. The purpose of this work is to describe the myth about doctors, its axiological parameters represented with the help of emotional and sensual metaphorical models in a literary text.
Methodology. The connection between a myth and a metaphor is traced in the paper. Three areas of value analysis of a literary text are described. The potential of the myth as an artistic and ideological category, as well as the author’s strategy that can expand the understanding of the myth as a cognitive category from axiological point of view is analyzed. The negative axiological status of the myth about doctors is described. Two approaches to the description of emotions as cultural phenomena – semantic and metaphorical, within which the task of describing emotional vocabulary is solved in different ways, are presented. In this study the axiological approach, the descriptive-analytical and continuous sampling methods were used.
Results. It is shown that the myth about doctors in a literary text, along with the implementation of the function of an axiological system that determines the value relations between the author and the character at the micro level of the work, represents the author’s axiosphere at the mesolevel. It is concluded that the negative axiological status of the myth about doctors is represented with the help of emotional and sensual metaphorical models: shame is destruction, sadness is the awareness of vulnerability, contempt is the loss of empathy, fear of making a diagnosis is the anxiety of making a mistake.
Research implications. The results of the study contribute to the study of the semantics of the myth about doctors, its axiological parameters which are represented with the help of emotional and sensual metaphorical models in a literary text. The article summarizes new material on the analysis of the authors’ value systems and their representation in a literary text.
About the Author
E. S. Stepanova
Samara State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Elena S. Stepanova – Cand. Sci. (Philology), Assoc. Prof., Department of Foreign and Latin Languages
Chapayevskaya ulitsa 89, Samara 443099
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