Associative experiment as one of the Methods of studying Linguistic Consciousness in Physicians

Abstract

The article discusses the potential of a psycholinguistic association experiment in the study of professional and personal distinguishing features of language consciousness in physicians. Research findings support the idea of associative reactions being professionally determined and of their congruency with the parcels recorded in the lexical-semantic field «Disease».

Communicative risks in the dyad ‘doctor – patient’

“…Institutional interaction between participants of the medical discourse is a necessary condition for proving an effi cient medical aid [1]. The level of contemporary higher professional medical education, provision of the population with remedies and medical goods, technical equipment and facilities of in-and out-patient medical institutions, installation and application of new methods and technical devices for diagnosing and treatment of diseases are com-pulsory conditions for rendering a qualitative medical aid [2].…”