Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings
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Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

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Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

About this book

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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Yes, you can access Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings by Pilar Ordóñez-López,Nuria Edo-Marzá in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Sociolinguistics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover-Page
  2. Half-Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. 1 Medical Discourse: Building Bridges between Medicine and Society
  9. 2 Variations in Medical Discourse for Academic Purposes
  10. 3 The Clinical Case Report as a Discourse Genre in the Context of Professional Training
  11. 4 Popular Science Articles vs Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education
  12. 5 The Ethics of Informed Consent. An Applied Linguistics Perspective
  13. 6 Exploring the Links Between the Oral and the Written in Patient– Doctor Communication
  14. 7 Metaphorical Aspects in Cancer Discourse
  15. 8 Cancer Metaphors in Sports News: The Match that Must Be Won
  16. 9 The Discourse of Mindfulness: What Language Reveals about the Mindfulness Experience
  17. Index