The Vocabulary of Medical English: A Corpus-based Study
ISBN: 9781443895781
Vydavatelství: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Rok vydání: 2017
Vazba: Hardback
Počet stran: 190
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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.