Publication details
Color in Symptomatic Images of Health and Disease in the Czech Language
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| Year of publication | 2010 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | Řehulka, E. (ed.): School and Health: Contexts and Inspiration |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | development of communication skills; educational program; health; color references and symptoms of health and disease in Czech language; comparison; figurative expressions |
| Description | There is a rich vocabulary in Czech dealing with the issues of health, which includes words usable either in their basic or their symbolic sense, figurative expressions and phraseology. Texts of different stylistic genres, especially those of artistic or journalistic nature, show how refferences to a color of a person or perhaps skin, are used to convey the symptoms of health and disease. For example, comparisons with yellow color are frequent in the images of sick people whose face may be yellow as wax, or waxy yellow. At present, there is a wealth of linguistic materials we can access - a half-a-billion word collection of written texts in contemporary Czech. |
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