Sun Q., Karabulatova I.S., Zou J., Kuo Ch. Metaphorical Terminology in Ancient Texts of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Problems of Understanding and Translation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2024.6.10
Qiuhua Sun
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department for International Cooperation, Heilongjiang University
Xuefu Rd, 74, 150080 Harbin, China
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Irina S. Karabulatova (Corresponding Author)
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Research Center for Digital Humanities, Institute of the Russian Language, Heilongjiang University
Xuefu Rd, 74, 150080 Harbin, China
Leading Researcher, Laboratory "Machine Learning and Semantic Analysis", Institute of Artificial Intelligence, Lomonosov Moscow State University
Leninskie gory, 1, 119991 Moscow, Russia
Professor, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Miklukho-Maklaya St, 6, 117198 Moscow, Russia
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4228-3235
Jinna Zou
PhD (Linguistics), Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Senior Lecturer, Institute of Russian Language, Heilongjiang University
Xuefu Rd, 74, 150080 Harbin, China
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Chen Kuo
Postgraduate Student, Department of Foreign Languages, Faculty of Philology, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba
Miklukho-Maklaya St, 6, 117198 Moscow, Russia
This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Abstract. The author's hypothesis proceeds from the position that the ancient treatises of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) describe metaphorically an ethnocultural understanding of neuro-linguistic and psychophysiological processes in the human body from the perspective of communication between large and small. TCM terms are medical concepts that also contain deep philosophical and linguistic-cultural content plans, due to the Wenyan-style in which TCM treatises are written. The purpose of the work is to identify the patterns of the language of these ancient texts in the context of the interpretation presented in them through the hierarchy of 'state and subjects'. The use of methodological holism made it possible to develop a new approach to the texts of traditional Chinese medicine from the standpoint of communication studies and neuropsycholinguistics. The mythologized interpretation of the concepts in the ancient treatises of TCM is associated with the signification of any health problem in the form of an expanded metaphor characterizing the problem as a violation of 'communication' in the body-'state' between 'vassals', 'individual social groups' and their 'leaders'. This positioning of the body's work through the prism of social relations provides an understanding of the interpretation of relationships in ancient Chinese society as a whole.
Key words: traditional Chinese medicine, The Treatise of the Yellow Emperor on the Inner, The Canon of Bian Que on the Inner, terminology, metaphor, verbalization of body problems, alternative communication, translation.
Citation. Sun Q., Karabulatova I.S., Zou J., Kuo Ch. Metaphorical Terminology in Ancient Texts of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Problems of Understanding and Translation. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2024, vol. 23, no. 6, pp. 141-157. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2024.6.10
Metaphorical Terminology in Ancient Texts of Traditional Chinese Medicine: Problems of Understanding and Translation by Sun Q., Karabulatova I.S., Zou J., Kuo Ch. is licensed under CC BY 4.0
 1_Karabulatova.pdfURL: https://l.jvolsu.com/index.php/en/component/attachments/download/3049 | 11 Downloads |