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Bioethical language and its dialects and idiolects.

V Garrafa1, D Diniz, D B Guilhem

  • 1Faculdade de Ciências da Saúde, Universidade de Brasília, C. P. 04367, Brasília, D. F., 70910-970, Brasil.

Cadernos De Saude Publica
|March 25, 1999
PubMed
Summary

This study explores knowledge import in practical ethics using metaphor as a linguistic tool. It examines how bioethical language, akin to national idioms and regional dialects, influences knowledge transmission and cultural context.

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Area of Science:

  • Bioethics
  • Linguistics
  • Philosophy of Science

Background:

  • Importing knowledge into practical ethics presents theoretical challenges.
  • Metaphor serves as an instrumental approach to understand language and knowledge transfer.
  • Bioethics can be conceptualized as a linguistic system with an overarching 'bioethical idiom' and specific 'dialects'.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To analyze the transmission of knowledge in bioethics.
  • To investigate the transculturation of dialects within bioethics.
  • To examine the relationship between central and peripheral bioethical concepts.

Main Methods:

  • Instrumental approach to metaphor.
  • Analysis of linguistic variants (idiom, dialect, idiolect) applied to bioethics.

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  • Referencing Diego Gracia's work on dialect transculturation.

    • Main Results:

    • Bioethics functions as a linguistic set ('bioethical nation') with a dominant idiom.
    • Diego Gracia's work highlights the core problem of importing dialects into bioethics.
    • The cultural and bioethical context/contradiction remains a key area for further research.

    Conclusions:

    • Metaphor provides a framework for understanding knowledge import in bioethics.
    • The concept of 'bioethical dialects' and their transculturation is crucial for knowledge transmission.
    • Further research is needed to resolve the complexities of cultural context in bioethical knowledge import.