Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings
LANGUAGE AT WORK
Series Editors : Jo Angouri , University of Warwick , UK and Rebecca Piekkari , Aalto University Business School , Finland
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LANGUAGE AT WORK: 1
Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings
Edited by
Pilar Ordez-Lpez
Nuria Edo-Marz
MULTILINGUAL MATTERS
Bristol Buffalo Toronto
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Names: Ordez Lpez, Pilar, editor. | Edo-Marz, Nuria, editor.
Title: Medical discourse in professional, academic and popular settings / edited by Pilar Ordez Lpez and Nuria Edo- Marz.
Description: Bristol; Buffalo: Multilingual Matters [2016] | Series: Language At Work: 1 | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016022310| ISBN 9781783096251 (hbk : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781783096275 (epub) | ISBN 9781783096282 (kindle)
Subjects: LCSH: Discourse analysis. | Communication in medicine. | Medicine--Language. | Language in the workplace--Social aspects. | Sociolinguistics.
Classification: LCC P302 .M3924 2016 | DDC 610.1/41--dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016022310
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Contents
Pilar Ordez-Lpez and Nuria Edo-Marz
Maurizio Gotti
Vicent Salvador
Begoa Bells-Fortuo
Morten Pilegaard
Vicent Montalt and Isabel Garca-Izquierdo
Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando
Mart Domnguez and Luca Sapia
Antonio-Jos Silvestre-Lpez
Begoa Bells Fortuo holds a PhD in English Philology from Jaume I University in Castelln, Spain, where she is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English Studies and member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas ModernasAplicadas). In 2006/2007, she was a Morley Scholar for the ELI (English Language Institute) at the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI), where she worked together with the MICASE team. Her research interests are focused on discourse analysis, and more specifically, written and spoken academic discourse, as well as on contrastive analysis and corpus linguistics.
Mart Domnguez is Professor of Journalism in the Department of Theory of Languages at the University of Valencia, Spain. He holds a PhD in Biology and has a background as researcher in media and science communication. He leads The Two Cultures Observatory, a multidisciplinary research group of the University of Valencia that focuses on the relationships between scientists and the media. He has published widely in the areas of visual communication, metaphors and knowledge exchange between scientists and the public.
Nuria Edo-Marz is Assistant Professor in the Department of English Studies at Jaume I University in Castelln, Spain, as well as a member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Her main research areas are specialised languages, mainly those of health, science and technology, and tourism; specialised lexicography; corpus linguistics and terminology. She is the author of The Specialised Lexicographical Approach: A Step Further in Dictionary-Making (2009) and has published in international journals and volumes. As regards medical language, she is the author of Spoken English for the Medical Professional (2012), English for Patient Administration and Non-Clinical Hospital Staff (2011) and English for Pharmacists (2011), and has co-authored a chapter entitled The peer reviewing process in medical research: Positive and negative effects on scientific advancement, included in the international volume The Language of Health Care (2008).
Isabel Garca-Izquierdo is Professor of Linguistics Applied to Translation and of Spanish for Translators in the Department of Translation and Communication at Jaume I University in Castelln, Spain. Since 2000, she has been the director of the research group GENTT (Textual Genres for Translation), which focuses on multilingual analysis of textual genres in the framework of specialised communication applied to translation. She is a member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Isabel Garca-Izquierdo has published several books as well as articles in national and international journals such as Sendebar , Hermeneus , Trans , Iberica , Meta , ITT , Target , Linguistica Antverpiensia . She is the author of Anlisis textual aplicado a la Traduccin (2000), Divulgacin mdica y traduccin. El gnero Informacin para pacientes (2010) and Competencia textual para la traduccin (2011); she is also the editor of El gnero textual y la traduccin (2005) and co-editor of Iberian Studies on Translation and Interpreting . New Trends in Translation Studies , Vol. 11 (2012).
