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

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter MultiLingual Matters Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Bellés-Fortuño, Begoña,; Domínguez, Martí,; Edo-Marzá, Nuria,; Ferrando, Ignasi Navarro i,; García-Izquierdo, Isabel,; Gotti, Maurizio,; Montalt, Vicent,; Ordóñez-López, Pilar,; Pilegaard, Morten,; Salvador, Vicent,; Sapiña, Lucía,; Silvestre-López, Antonio-José,
• HerausgeberIn: Edo-Marzá, Nuria,; Ordóñez-López, Pilar,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol ;, Blue Ridge Summit : : Multilingual Matters, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Language at Work
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781783096268; 9783110663112; 9783110606706
• DOI: 10.21832/9781783096268
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá.

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.