期刊名称：Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies
印刷版ISSN：0860-5734
出版年度：2020
卷号：29
期号：2
页码：73-90
DOI：10.7311/0860-5734.29.2.04
语种：English
出版社：Institute of English Studies
摘要：The study examines five names of medieval medical practitioners: barber,doctor,leech,physician,and surgeon. The aim is to view the semantic change of those names in non-medical prose texts from the Middle English period. The analysis also considers their origin,frequency,semantic fields,function and both metaphorical and non-metaphorical meanings in Middle English and later. Furthermore,the research verifies to what extent the findings of Sylwanowicz (2003) are confirmed by the results of a similar examination of a non-medical corpus. The data for the study come from the Innsbruck Corpus of Middle English Prose,with the support of historical dictionaries.
