Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

Edited by Pilar Ordóñez-López, Nuria Edo-Marzá

Publication date:

09 August 2016

Publisher

Multilingual Matters

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781783096251

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.

1. Pilar Ordóñez-López and Nuria Edo-Marzá: Medical Discourse: Building Bridges between Medicine and Society

2. Maurizio Gotti: Variations in Medical Discourse for Academic Purposes

3. Vicent Salvador: The Clinical Case as a Discourse Genre in the Context of Professional Training

4. Begoña Bellés-Fortuño: Popular Science Articles vs. Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education

5. Morten Pilegaard: The Ethics of Health Communication from an Applied Linguistics Perspective

6. Vicent Montalt and Isabel García-Izquierdo: Doing Research in Written Communication for Patients

7. Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando: Metaphoric Aspects in Cancer Discourse

8. Martí Domínguez and Lucía Sapiña: Cancer in Sports News: The Match that Must be Won

9. Antonio-José Silvestre-López: The Discourse of Mindfulness: What Language Reveals about the Mindfulness Experience

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.