汉语疼痛描述词汇的调查

INVESTIGATION ON THE PAIN DESCRIBING WORDS IN CHINESE

摘要:

本文从５０７份疼痛调查问卷中，收集整理了形容疼痛及与疼痛有关的词汇４７２个，将其分为四个大类并根据词意分为若干组，再按每一词汇的应答人数进行排列，其中形容疼痛性质的词汇２３５个，占总词汇量的近５０％，表明这类词汇在疼痛描述词汇中占主要部分；形容疼痛强度的词汇４７个，形容情感反应及评价性词汇６５个；此二类在疼痛测量及评估中也起到重要作用；另外，还收集了１２５个与疼痛有关的词汇。作者还发现，汉语中人们对某些疼痛描述词汇有较高的认同，那些应答人数较高的词汇可作为汉语疼痛描述的基本词汇。

Abstract:

We collected 472 Chinese words used to describe pain and some words related topain from 507 Chinese questionnaire about pain in this study.All the words were catego rized in four major classes and a number of groups,and then ranked according to thefrequency of appearance. There were 235(nearly 50%)of the woads describing charactersof pain sensation suggesting that these words used to describe sensory characteristics are theprimary part in pain-describing words.47 words were used to describe the intensity and 65words for affection and evaluation.They are also important in pain measurement and evalu ation.In addition, 125 related words were also brought togather.Besides,we found thatpeople had a high level of agreement in some pain-describing words.There words with highfrequency of usage can be the basic words for the language of pain in Chinese.