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Advances in Medical Discourse Analysis

Author : Maurizio Gotti

Publisher : Peter Lang

Page : 504 pages

File Size : 36,75 MB

Release : 2006

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9783039111855

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Book Description

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.



Engagement in Medical Research Discourse

Author : Daniel Lees Fryer

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 19,11 MB

Release : 2021-09-20

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1000453154

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This book integrates insights from dialogic theory and systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to extend our understandings of engagement in medical research articles, going beyond notions of the role of verbal dialogue to encompass mathematical and visual semiotics and consider text not just as language but as multisemiosis. The volume begins by outlining the engagement framework and offering a brief overview of historical developments in medical research discourse. This discussion culminates in the introduction of the corpus used for analysis, drawing on original research articles from key medical journals to explore verbal, mathematical, and visual engagement in turn. A subsequent chapter brings these perspectives together to demonstrate intersemiotic engagement across different stages and phases of the medical research article and how such resources work together to construe and maintain the authoritative position commonly associated with medical discourse. The book looks ahead to engagement in other related disciplinary fields and future directions for work on multisemiosis and medical research discourse more generally. This book will be of particular interest to graduate students and researchers in multimodality, critical discourse analysis, applied linguistics, SFL, and science education.



Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

Author : Pilar Ordóñez-López

Publisher : Multilingual Matters

Page : 220 pages

File Size : 42,16 MB

Release : 2016-08-09

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1783096276

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Book Description

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.



Advances in Discourse Analysis

Author : Lavinia Suciu

Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand

Page : 132 pages

File Size : 45,53 MB

Release : 2019-04-03

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1789857570

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Book Description

This book is an open access publication edited by IntechOpen. Its main goal is to summarize current research in the discourse analysis area. It provides a scientific platform for researchers to publish the latest studies and developments in both theoretical and practical aspects of discourse analysis and to make it more visible. The book is an excellent way for disseminating inspiring visions, innovative research methods, and research findings in this interdisciplinary field.It is a fact that in our postmodern times, the discourse has gained new connections and dimensions through fundamental changes and structural progress. Therefore, the research of the discourse generates new knowledge, creates a favorable atmosphere for change, and provides people with information and data that help them to benefit directly in their everyday life.



Insights Into Medical Communication

Author : Maurizio Gotti

Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 10,41 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Communication

ISBN : 9783034316941

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This book analyses medical communication from a range of innovative perspectives, not only from a merely linguistic angle, but also from a social and cultural standpoint, with an emphasis both on the doctor-patient relationship and on the social relevance of the other communicative links existing between the many communities involved in this type of interaction.



Analysing Health Communication

Author : Gavin Brookes

Publisher : Springer Nature

Page : 360 pages

File Size : 25,73 MB

Release : 2021-05-19

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 303068184X

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Book Description

This edited book showcases original research in the study of healthcare and health communication, while also providing a detailed overview of contemporary methods of discourse analysis. Discourse approaches remain under-represented in the field of health communication, despite their potential for affording detailed understanding of health-related text and talk across an array of contexts, for example in face-to-face and digital healthcare encounters, health promotion, and patients’ accounts of illness experiences. This book aims to address this gap in the literature by offering the first book-length treatment of different approaches to discourse analysis in health(care) and illness contexts, and it will appeal both to linguists and to researchers in nursing and health sciences, sociology and anthropology.



Discourse Analysis as Theory and Method

Author : Marianne W Jørgensen

Publisher : SAGE

Page : 244 pages

File Size : 22,8 MB

Release : 2002-12-26

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 9780761971122

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Book Description

A systematic introduction to discourse analysis as a body of theories and methods for social research. Introduces three approaches and explains the distinctive philosophical premises and theoretical perspectives of each approach.



The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication

Author : Heidi Hamilton

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 700 pages

File Size : 29,96 MB

Release : 2014-04-16

Category : Language Arts & Disciplines

ISBN : 1317932331

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Book Description

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The Handbook is divided into three sections: Individuals’ everyday health communication Health professionals’ communicative practices Patient-provider communication in interaction Special attention is given to cross-cutting themes, including the role of technology in health communication, narrative, and observations of authentic, naturally-occurring contexts. The chapters are written by international authorities representing a wide range of perspectives and approaches. Building on established work with cutting-edge studies on the changing health communication landscape, this volume will be an essential reference for all those involved in health communication and applied linguistics research and practice.



Medicine, Risk, Discourse and Power

Author : John Martyn Chamberlain

Publisher : Routledge

Page : 350 pages

File Size : 10,77 MB

Release : 2015-11-19

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1317331966

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This book critically explores from a comparative international perspective the role medicine plays in constructing and managing natural and social risks, including those belonging to modern medical technology and expertise. Drawing together chapters written by professional practitioners and social scientists from the UK, South America, Australia and Europe, the book offers readers an insightful and thought-provoking analysis of how modern medicine has transformed our understanding of both ourselves and the world around us, but in so doing has arguably failed to fully recognize and account for, its unintended and negative effects. This is an essential read for social scientists, practitioners and policymakers who want to better understand how they can develop new ways of thinking about how modern medicine can promote social goods and enhance public health.



The SAGE Handbook of Sociolinguistics

Author : Ruth Wodak

Publisher : SAGE Publications

Page : 649 pages

File Size : 22,33 MB

Release : 2011

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 1847870953

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This Handbook answers a long-standing need for an up-to-date, comprehensive, international, in-depth critical survey of the history, trajectory, data, results and key figures involved in sociolinguistics. The result is a work of unprecedented coverage and insight. It is all here, from the foundational contributions to the field to the impact of new media, new technologies of communication, globalization, trans-border fluidities and agendas of research.