Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings /

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

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource
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Table of 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

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