Fransos och finnskott : Något om språklig projicering inom det folkmedicinska ordförrådet

• The starting-point of this study is our need for satisfactory explanations when we suffer from illness. Often, justly or not, we identify an individual or a group as disease carriers. This phenomenon can be regarded as an act of projection, and in Scandinavian ethnomedicine it shows itself in the terminology when a disease is named after an ethnic group. The present study, which shows just a few examples of this kind of linguistic projection, deals mainly with the words fransos ('Frenchman') and finnskott ('Lapp shot'), but words such as utländska elden ('the foreign fire') and tyskeldsår ('sore from German fire') are also mentioned.

Subject headings

HUMANIORA  -- Språk och litteratur (hsv//swe)

HUMANITIES  -- Languages and Literature (hsv//eng)

Keyword

word history

word formation

ethnomedicine

ordhistoria

ordbildning

etnomedicin

Languages and linguistics

Språkvetenskap

Scandinavian Languages

nordiska språk

Swedish

Publication and Content Type

vet (subject category)

kap (subject category)