Overview
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.
Full Product Details
Author: Pilar Ordóñez-López ,
Nuria Edo-Marzá ,
Pilar Ord Ez-L?pez
Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
Imprint: Multilingual Matters
Volume: 1
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 1.80cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.485kg
ISBN: 9781783096251
ISBN 10: 178309625
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 09 August 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
The book shows the amazing diversity of medical discourse. We learn from it that neither medicine nor linguistics should sit aloof in their ivory towers bridges can be built between them. Both can be brought down to earth and they can serve each other, to the benefit of those who need help the most.--Zoltan Kovecses,
This book adds to the coming of age of interdisciplinarity in specialized discourse and translation research, with ground-breaking contributions that touch upon genre-oriented issues in medical texts. The overriding idea one should keep in mind after reading it is that no discourse - not even scientific discourse - is free from all textual and ideological subtexts, and this implies that ethics or the persuasive use of metaphoric language should be considered as an integral part of real-life medical discourse. Javier Franco, Universidad de Alicante, Spain The book shows the amazing diversity of medical discourse. We learn from it that neither medicine nor linguistics should sit aloof in their ivory towers - bridges can be built between them. Both can be brought down to earth and they can serve each other, to the benefit of those who need help the most. Zoltan Kovecses, Eotvos Lorand University, Hungary This volume sheds light on the understanding of cognitive, textual, linguistic, ethical and discourse-specific features operating in medical discourse in professional, academic, and popular settings. It is a most welcome and useful book that provides an excellent overview of a wide variety of topics. I thoroughly recommend it to anyone interested in the language of medicine and in medical communication. Francoise Salager-Meyer, University of the Andes, Venezuela
The book shows the amazing diversity of medical discourse. We learn from it that neither medicine nor linguistics should sit aloof in their ivory towers bridges can be built between them. Both can be brought down to earth and they can serve each other, to the benefit of those who need help the most. - Zoltan K?vecses,
Author Information
Author Website: http://www.uji.es/UK/departaments/ang/estructura/personal/e@/22752/?p_url=/UK/departaments/ang/estructura/personal&p_item=22752&p_per_id=23049
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. 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.
