English language contact-induced features in the language of medicine

An investigation of Hungarian Cardiology discharge reports and language attitudes of physicians and patients
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-3-631-62564-4
Verlag: Peter Lang

Buch, Englisch, Band 381, 350 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 450 g

Reihe: Europäische Hochschulschriften / European University Studies / Publications Universitaires Européennes

The book describes the Hungarian language of cardiology through contact linguistic analysis of Hungarian cardiology discharge reports. The author investigates how Hungarian physicians are influenced by the English language in their professional life, and what types of interference can be found in the Hungarian documents written by them. She explores the attitude of physicians and patients towards the English language and the interferences as well. The book suggests that a common code has been developed in medicine which is a mixture of mainly Hungarian vocabulary and grammar, and Latin and English terms, and other borrowed English structural features, and it is used by the members of the two discourse communities (family physicians and cardiologists) but not by their patients.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Keresztes, Csilla

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Fachsprachen
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachkontaktforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Einzelne Sprachen & Sprachfamilien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents: Language contact – English contact-induced language change (Englishization) – Borrowing – English as an international lingua franca – The language of medicine – The international scientific vocabulary – Genres in Medicine – The hospital discharge summary – Cardiology – Semi-structured interview – Hospital physicians – Inpatients.

Über Autor(innen)

Csilla Keresztes, MA in English Applied Linguistics and Philosophy (1988), dissertation in Social Medicine, Patient Education (1991), PhD in English Applied Linguistics (2010); teaching medical communication and translation studies at the University of Szeged, Hungary, and researching English contact-induced features in Hungarian medical texts (from 1992 to present).