O comportamento de especialistas e não-especialistas na área de saúde na categorização do item lexical doença

Abstract

This paper aims to analyzing the category “disease” under the point of view of prototype’s theory,verifying the scale of prototipicality from the samples collected of twenty informers, distributed as follows: ten are specialists of the health area and the others are non specialists. The issue which motivated our research has consisted in knowing if there were significant differences between scales of prototipicality proposed by two groups. The date were collected through individual interviews and were tabulated and typed in the SPSS for Windows 8.0. The statistical analysis was used to calculate the general frequencies’ averages, the test of inter-group homogeneity and the test of ANOVA variancy.