Publication details
What is Most Often Healthy, Unhealthy or Pathological (Healthy Mentality, Unhealthy Diet, Pathological Condition)
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| Year of publication | 2011 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | SCHOOL AND HEALTH 21. Health Literacy through Education |
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| Field | Pedagogy and education |
| Keywords | Czech words zdravý (healthy); nezdravý (unhealthy) and chorobný (morbid); zdravý and nezdravý or chorobný in educational themes |
| Description | In previous articles that were published 2009, 2010 and 2011 we tried showing how Czech language reflexes how common people think about the health and how thinking about health reflexes colloquial speech, including Czech phraseology: we followed up parables (zdravý jako býk – healthy as a bull, zdravý jako buk – healthy as an beech), what kind of qualities and features are appreciated when somebody says words zdravě (healthy), nezdravě (unhealthy), chorobně (morbidly) or how the colours are perceived as symptom of the health or illness. In following article we are going to present what object are considered and spoken as healtha (zdravý), unhealthy (nezdravý), ill (nemocný) or disordered (chorobný). Our research will be based on the corpus of Czech texts that includes 1,3 milliards words. We are going to follow up, what words (almost nouns) designating various factual and abstract objects are almost collocate with the adjectives zdravý (healthy), nezdravý (unhealthy), nemocný (ill) or chorobný (disordered). |
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