*** An Investigation into Socio-Psycho-Biological Aspects of Linguistic Hegemony/Inequalities(Methodological Design of the Problem in a Medical Text: Principles of Harrison Internal Medicine / Neurology)

This This This research adopts a socio-psycho-biological approach to address the types, mechanisms and methodology of research on malfunctions of linguistic hegemony/inequalities. Drawing on Harrison’s ‘Principles of Harrison Internal Medicine: Neurological Diseases (2018)’ , the study reveals in that text some dimensions of linguistic hegemony and highlights the necessity of research on biological aspects of language, linguistic hegemony/inequalities and the biological consequences resulting from linguistic hegemony. The research also deals with some assumptions underlying medical linguistics and raises a number of questions on ‘linguistically-oriented medical study of brain and neurons’. It is argued that the preliminary findings of this research can pave the way for an initial theoretical/methodological foundation whose operationalization would require deeper interdisciplinary studies. This also requires stronger academic/scientific support from experts of different disciplines and financial support from relevant institutions. In the absence of such support, the issue can be approached from an ‘interpretive’ perspective per se.