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Medical English as a Lingua Franca / M. Gregory Tweedie, Robert C. Johnson.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Developments in English as a Lingua Franca [DELF] ; 16Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter Mouton, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: 1 online resource (IX, 220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110696974
  • 9783110697070
  • 9783110697025
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 428.2495108861 23
LOC classification:
  • PE1127.M4 .T844 2022
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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)9783110697025

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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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