28.3072, Books: The Vocabulary of Medical English: Panocová

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Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:35:13
From: Chris Humphrey [chumphrey at c-s-p.org]
Subject: The Vocabulary of Medical English: Panocová

 


Title: The Vocabulary of Medical English 
Subtitle: A Corpus-based Study 
Publication Year: 2017 
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
	   http://www.cambridgescholars.com/
	

Book URL: http://www.cambridgescholars.com/the-vocabulary-of-medical-english 


Author: Renáta Panocová

Hardback: ISBN:  9781443895781 Pages: 190 Price: U.K. £ 58.99
Hardback: ISBN:  9781443895781 Pages: 190 Price: U.S. $ 99.95


Abstract:

The question of characterizing academic vocabulary has often been framed in a
context that is purely determined by questions of language teaching. The aim
in such approaches is to come up with a list of words for learners of English
for Special Purposes. This book approaches this question from a more general,
empirical perspective, focusing on medical vocabulary.

Its main contention is that the characterization of medical vocabulary is much
more complex than is suggested by a simple list. In a list, a threshold
determines the borderline on a one-dimensional scale between what counts as
medical vocabulary and what fails to qualify as such. In analysing how such
lists have been produced and how the cut-off point has been determined, the
book shows a number of factors that have to be taken into account. It uses a
comparison of two corpora to demonstrate the extent to which text type
determines the outcome of frequency calculations. On the basis of such
observations, it argues for a new methodology for the calculation of the
degree of “medicalness” of lexemes.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Lexicography


Written In: English  (eng)

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