Discourse interrelation (medical and humanitarian discourses)

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the problem of humanitarian and medical discourse crossing and the description of some results of this intersection. The discourse of psychology is considered as humanitarian. From the standpoint of contextual, definition, semantic and conceptual types of analysis, two examples from English-speaking scientific psychological literature are analyzed, in which fragments of knowledge of medical discourse are revealed. The presented analysis confirms the fact of these discourses intersection and demonstrates the cognitive ability of knowledge synthesis to generate new knowledge or change the idea of knowledge of the existing one.