Medic Discourse in the Structure of Children's Literature Polydiscourse
The article describes children's literature as a polydiscourse, i.e. a socially and culturally conditioned interlacement of discourses reproducing themselves in a multitude of texts united on the basis of common sphere of usage and specific ideology. The polydiscourse of children's literature includes two groups of discourses centering round the ideological functions of socialization and amusement. The main ideas are illustrated by the analysis of the functions of medical discourse in children's fiction.