TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tweedie,M.Gregory
AU  - Johnson,Robert C.
TI  - Medical English as a Lingua Franca
T2  - Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] ,
SN  - 9783110696974
AV  - PE1127.M4 .T844 2022
U1  - 428.2495108861 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - English language
KW  - Medical English
KW  - Lingua Franca
KW  - Medizinisches Englisch
KW  - World Englishes
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - English as a Lingua Franca
KW  - Medical Communication
N1  - Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction: MELF and ELF --; Chapter 1 Healthcare communication and MELF --; Chapter 2 Tools for analysis: Framing MELF --; Chapter 3 The researchers, the research, and the research setting --; Chapter 4 Strategies for MELF communication --; Chapter 5 Finding common ground in MELF --; Chapter 6 Implications and conclusion: Healthcare education in MELF contexts --; Appendix: Transcription Glossary --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In this first book-length treatment of MELF, the authors assert that MELF represents an important contribution to our understanding of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), in that existing ELF research has been limited to relatively low stakes communicative situations, such as interactions in business, academia, internet blogging or casual conversations. Medical contexts, in contrast, often represent situations calling for exceptional communicative precision and urgency. Providing both evidence from their own research and analysis from (the limited number of) existing studies, the authors offer a counterpoint to the optimism regarding communicative success prevalent in ELF. The book proposes a theoretical perspective on how the various features of healthcare communication serve as important variables in shaping interaction among speakers of ELF, further enlarging our understanding of this emerging sub-field
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110697025
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110697025
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110697025/original
ER  -