Suggestion in the medical-didactic discourse: the concepts of tortoise, turtle and teacher (based on the material of communicative practices of the medical college)

Dikun Natalia Vladimirovna, Golubev Ilya Gennadievich, Demidenko Dmitry Aleksandrovich

This paper examines the medical and didactic discourse of the college and raises the question of the need to protect the of students’ psychological health. The conceptual analysis of the zoonyms “tortoise” and “turtle”, conducted first at the denotative level, and then at the three connotative sublevels (pagan, Old Testament and Christian), demonstrates the close connection of these concepts of fauna with that of the TEACHER, which contributes to the effective formation of a generalized semantic prototype of the latter, as well as sparing suggestive strategies.

Keywords:suggestion, medical-didactic discourse, psychological health of students, medical college, tortoise, turtle, teacher (lecturer), concept, generalized semantic prototype, sparing suggestive strategies