Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings Contributor(s): Ordóñez-López, Pilar (Editor), Edo-Marzá, Nuria (Editor) |
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ISBN: 178309625X ISBN-13: 9781783096251 Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited OUR PRICE: $132.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: August 2016 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Disease & Health Issues - Language Arts & Disciplines | Linguistics - Sociolinguistics - Medical | Preventive Medicine |
Dewey: 610.141 |
LCCN: 2016022310 |
Series: Language at Work |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.2" W x 9.3" (1.25 lbs) 224 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. Based on corpus-driven studies, it includes a wide variety of approaches including cognitive, corpus and diachronic linguistics. Each chapter examines a different aspect of medical communication, including the use of metaphor referring to cancer, the importance of ethics in medical documents addressed to patients and the suitability of popular science articles for medical students. The book also features linguistic, textual and discourse-focused analysis of some fundamental medical genres. By combining sociological and linguistic research applied to the medical context, this book illustrates how linguists and translation specialists can build bridges between health professionals and their patients. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ordonez-Lopez, Pilar: - Pilar Ordonez-Lopez is Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Communication at Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain, and member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Her research interests include the history of translation, translation theory, corpus-based translation studies and legal translation. Edo-Marza, Nuria: -Nuria Edo-Marza is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Castellon, Spain, and member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Her research interests include specialised languages (mainly those of health, science and technology and tourism), specialised lexicography, corpus linguistics and terminology. |