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...
This volume investigates the features and challenges of medical discourse between medical professionals as well as with patients and in the media. ...
This book explores the contextual complexities of workplace emails by comparing British English and Peninsular Spanish directive speech events. Through a combination of qualitative and quantitative methods of data collection and analysis the book offers an innovative approach to the study of politeness.
This book explores the contextual complexities of workplace emails by comparing British English and Peninsular Spanish directive speech events. Throug...
