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Lexicographic studies in medicine: Academic Word List for clinical case histories

P MungraTatiana Canziani

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lcsh:Language and Literaturelcsh:Philology. LinguisticsKeywords: lexis Medical English Medical Academic Word List (MAWL) clinical case histories subject-specific wordlists.lcsh:P1-1091subject-specific wordlistsclinical case historieslcsh:PMedical EnglishSettore L-LIN/12 - Lingua E Traduzione - Lingua IngleseMedical Academic Word List (MAWL)lexis

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Medical texts are often thought to pertain to a closed community, but how far the language used by that community overlaps with general academic lexis is unknown. We examined a corpus of clinical case histories using the software RANGE to characterise the lexis of clinical case histories quantitatively and present a wordlist for clinical medicine. Only 58% of the general academic wordlists are found in clinical texts but the 85% overlap with an important academic wordlist, the Coxhead 570, furnishes evidence for the academic nature of the lexis used for clinical cases in Medicine. There was little overlap (38%) between our clinical case wordlist and other wordlists of medical research articles but such overlap might constitute a core of medical lexis.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2013-04-01Ibérica
http://www.aelfe.org/documents/03_25_Mungra.pdf