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This book investigates how language in UK and Italian patient information leaflets shapes understanding. Through linguistic analysis, it evaluates the impact of legal compliance on readability, exposing the tension between regulatory needs and patient-centred communication.
This monograph investigates how language shapes patient understanding in pharmaceutical communication, focusing on patient information leaflets (PILs) in the UK and Italy. Through a corpus-based comparative analysis of over-the-counter and prescription PILs, the book systematically examines key linguistic features – including modality, passive constructions, sentence length, and specialised terminology – and evaluates their potential impact on readability and accessibility.
Combining quantitative frequency analysis with close qualitative examination, the study highlights significant cross-linguistic differences in the structure and presentation of medical information. It also explores how national regulatory frameworks influence linguistic choices and how these, in turn, affect patient comprehension.
By bringing applied linguistics into dialogue with health communication, the book exposes the communicative tensions between legal compliance and patient-centredness. It argues for more linguistically informed policies and advocates for interdisciplinary collaboration in the production of public-facing medical texts.
This work will be of interest to researchers in corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, and medical communication, as well as to professionals involved in pharmaceutical writing, public health, and health policy development.
This guide provides the theoretical knowledge and empirical tools for Discourse Analysis. Conceived as a university course, it is useful for anyone who wants to acquire the skills to analyze any type of discourse, from medical to computer-mediated.
This book reflects achievements in the growing field of English as a lingua franca (ELF). It presents empirical findings from leading scholars, providing substance to arguments by analyzing authentic language in conversational, academic, and business situations.
Effective language teaching requires knowing how people learn. This book exposes how the commercialized ELT industry ignores this, leading to poor methods and flawed tests. It then charts a new, evidence-based path forward for learners, teachers, and the future of ELT.
An essential coursebook for Arab students of translation. It combines discussion with practical exercises and examples tuned for beginners, making it ideal for undergraduates.
This volume explores the convergence of Cognitive Linguistics and critical discourse analysis. It addresses socio-political discourses on nation, immigration, and war, and is of value to anyone interested in the interaction between language, mind, and society.
Born at Versailles in 1919, conference interpreters made modern diplomacy possible. This volume celebrates one century of this exceptional profession, exploring its milestones and future post-pandemic through a candid discussion with practitioners, researchers, and trainers.
This book uses linguistic analysis to explore translating for the stage and screen. It reveals how meaning is made when adapting works by authors like Shakespeare, Wilde, and Austen for Greek audiences in the 20th century.
A step-by-step guide to writing a PhD dissertation for students in the Social Sciences. This book offers helpful guidelines, exercises, and pointers to successfully navigate the entire writing process, from conceptualization and literature review to the final conclusion.
This wide-ranging collection brings together essays on a recent approach to translation known as transcreation, which has challenged the traditional structure of the translation market and the agency and ethics of the discipline, and encouraged new research in translation studies
This volume explores translation’s role in political communication and news reporting, bringing to light the invisible link between politics, media, and translation. It offers a new disciplinary view from Translation Studies on political discourse.
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