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Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings / ed. by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Language at WorkPublisher: Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit : Multilingual Matters, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781783096251
  • 9781783096268
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 610.1/41 23
LOC classification:
  • P302
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Medical Discourse: Building Bridges between Medicine and Society -- 2. Variations in Medical Discourse for Academic Purposes -- 3. The Clinical Case Report as a Discourse Genre in the Context of Professional Training -- 4. Popular Science Articles vs Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education -- 5. The Ethics of Informed Consent. An Applied Linguistics Perspective -- 6. Exploring the Links Between the Oral and the Written in Patient-Doctor Communication -- 7. Metaphorical Aspects in Cancer Discourse -- 8. Cancer Metaphors in Sports News: The Match that Must Be Won -- 9. The Discourse of Mindfulness: What Language Reveals about the Mindfulness Experience -- Index
Summary: 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, it illustrates how linguists and translation specialists can build bridges between health professionals and their patients.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781783096268

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- 1. Medical Discourse: Building Bridges between Medicine and Society -- 2. Variations in Medical Discourse for Academic Purposes -- 3. The Clinical Case Report as a Discourse Genre in the Context of Professional Training -- 4. Popular Science Articles vs Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education -- 5. The Ethics of Informed Consent. An Applied Linguistics Perspective -- 6. Exploring the Links Between the Oral and the Written in Patient-Doctor Communication -- 7. Metaphorical Aspects in Cancer Discourse -- 8. Cancer Metaphors in Sports News: The Match that Must Be Won -- 9. The Discourse of Mindfulness: What Language Reveals about the Mindfulness Experience -- Index

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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, it illustrates how linguists and translation specialists can build bridges between health professionals and their patients.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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