title: Confrontational analysis of motivation in medical terminology.
abstract: The work was directed to emphasize the role of motivation in the process of term formation in medicine. The authors present a confrontational analysis of a sample of medical terms. The aim of analysis is to show motivation in term formation in six different languages, that is in English, German, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Latin. It is emphasized that there is a broad influence of ancient Greek and Latin terms, the basic source of much of our medical terminology. As for the motivation, terms are divided into three groups: the terms with direct, indirect and neutral motivation. The groups show different portions of motivation in the formation of the terms. The result of the analysis is the discovery that in the six compared languages, there are applied the same motivation elements, which are expressed by means of the same language elements. (Ref. 22.)
authors.affiliation: Foreign Language Department, Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University, Zaborskeho 2, SK-036 01 Martin, Slovakia.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Polackova
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Dzuganova
mesh_terms: D008037:Linguistics; D009626:Terminology as Topic