Trofimova O.V., Petrukhina A.V. Medical Books of the 17 th –18 th Centuries from the Siberian Archives: Structural-and-Grammatical Aspect
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2021.4.2
Olga V. Trofimova
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Department of Russian Language and General Linguistics, Tyumen State University
Respubliki St, 9, 625003 Tyumen, Russia
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Anastasia V. Petrukhina
Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor, Department of Philological Disciplines, Tyumen State Medical University
Odesskaya St, 54, 625023 Tyumen, Russia
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Abstract. The article presents a comparative study of two medical books from the Siberian archives dating back to the 17 th –18 th centuries: Tobolsk Lechebnik (TL) kept in Tobolsk Book Depository, and Altai Lechebnik (AL) stored in Altai Museum of Local Lore – both stemming from the text of the medical book called "Prokhladnyi Vertograd (The Cool Garden)" from the collection of the Rumyantsev Museum (PV). Our findings show that Siberian medical books demonstrate different degrees of structural and grammatical transformation of the source PV text, conventionally considered by the authors of the research to be a list, which is chronologically closer to the original text. It was established that TL can be regarded as a list derived from the PV, and AL – a source reflecting a further stage in the process of text generation in the institutional medical discourse. We claim that the intentional and grammatical perspective of the medical text formation is associated with the modal variability of verbal lexemes: the prevailing in PV and TL personal verb forms reflect the presence of the subject of speech as an agent in special communication; in AL these are replaced by infinitives which transform the real modality of the message about an action "from experience" (in PV and TL) into a syntactic categorical imperative.It was also determined that the subject of the action expressed by personal verb forms is typically generalized (in this case, special actions of the doctor and the patient can be detected through the difference in the verbal lexemes). The subject is not grammatically defined with the infinitive verb forms.
Key words: history of the Russian language, historical source, 'lechebnik' – medical book, modality, subject of speech, verb forms, medical discourse.
Citation. Trofimova O.V., Petrukhina A.V. Medical Books of the 17 th –18 th Centuries from the Siberian Archives: Structural-and-Grammatical Aspect. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2021, vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 19-35. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2021.4.2
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