Ris, skäver och skärva : Folklig kategorisering av några barnsjukdomar ur ett kognitivt semantiskt perspektiv

In Swedish dialects we find the terms ris,skäver and skärva referring to illnesses in children. The words are also parts of various compounds which refer to variants of the illnesses. The terms are linguistic expressions denoting two folk categories of illnesses, RIS and SKÄVER/SKÄRVA. These categor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Westum, Asbjörg
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:Swedish
Published: Umeå universitet, Litteraturvetenskap och nordiska språk 1999
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