Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis: Oral and Written Contexts - Couverture souple

Gotti, Maurizio; Salager-meyer, Françoise

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 303911185X ISBN 13 : 9783039111855

Editeur : Verlag Peter Lang, 2006

Synopsis

The focus of this volume is on medical discourse, a domain of language which deserves closer scrutiny by academics as well as practitioners, due to its increasing relevance and pervasiveness in modern society. Despite the wealth of publications dealing with specialized or academic discourse and its rhetoric, few of these are devoted specifically to medical discourse. This book seeks to redress the balance by bringing together a number of studies that bear witness to the widespread interest in medical texts shown by linguists and professional communities around the world. The volume is divided into two main parts : the first targets medical discourse in its spoken dimension, while the second contains various analyses of written texts. The theoretical perspectives and individual case studies presented here reflect the wide range of methodological approaches and theoretical issues that characterise current research in the field.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

The Editors : Maurizio Gotti is Professor of English Linguistics at the University of Bergamo, Italy. He is currently President of the Italian Association of University Language Centres and Director of CERLIS, a centre for research on specialized languages based at the University of Bergamo. His main areas of interest are the features and origins of English specialized discourse, English syntax, lexicology and lexicography. Françoise Salager-Meyer teaches English for Specific Purposes and Russian at the University of the Andes (Mérida, Venezuela), where she co-ordinates the Multidisciplinary and Multilingual Research Group on Scientific Discourse Analysis. She has published several articles dealing with the linguistic, rhetorical and discoursal features of medical English, Spanish and French prose in international journals and has edited the Language and Medicine section of the second edition of the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2005).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Verlag Peter Lang
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 303911185X
• ISBN 13: 9783039111855
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 492
• Coordonnées du fabricant: r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; r.boehm-korff@peterlang.com; ; Gontardstraße 11; Berlin; 10178; Allemagne