Beschreibung
The book describes English language contact-induced features in the language of medicine through contact linguistic analysis of Hungarian cardiology discharge reports. The author investigates how Hungarian physicians are influenced by the English language and the types of interferences in the Hungarian documents written by them.
Autorenportrait
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).
Inhalt
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.
