Medical Discourse in Professional, Academic and Popular Settings

Pilar Ordóñez-López is Lecturer in the Department of Translation and Communication at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, and member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Her research interests include the history of translation, translation theory, corpus-based translation studies and legal translation.Nuria Edo-Marzá is Lecturer in the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón, Spain, and member of the IULMA (Instituto Interuniversitario de Lenguas Modernas Aplicadas). Her research interests include specialised languages (mainly those of health, science and technology and tourism), specialised lexicography, corpus linguistics and terminology.

• 1. Pilar Ordóñez-López and Nuria Edo-Marzá: Medical Discourse: Building Bridges between Medicine and Society2. Maurizio Gotti: Variations in Medical Discourse for Academic Purposes3. Vicent Salvador: The Clinical Case as a Discourse Genre in the Context of Professional Training4. Begoña Bellés-Fortuño: Popular Science Articles vs. Scientific Articles: A Tool for Medical Education5. Morten Pilegaard: The Ethics of Health Communication from an Applied Linguistics Perspective6. Vicent Montalt and Isabel García-Izquierdo: Doing Research in Written Communication for Patients7. Ignasi Navarro i Ferrando: Metaphoric Aspects in Cancer Discourse8. Martí Domínguez and Lucía Sapiña: Cancer in Sports News: The Match that Must be Won9. Antonio-José Silvestre-López: The Discourse of Mindfulness: What Language Reveals about the Mindfulness Experience

This book adds to the coming of age of interdisciplinarity in specialized discourse and translation research, with ground-breaking contributions that touch upon genre-oriented issues in medical texts. The overriding idea one should keep in mind after reading it is that no discourse – not even scientific discourse – is free from all textual and ideological subtexts, and this implies that ethics or the persuasive use of metaphoric language should be considered as an integral part of real-life medical discourse.