What is it about?
This study focuses on the genre of lecture as “the central ritual of the culture of learning” (Benson, 1994 ) in higher education. Here, I analyse the use of evaluative language in medical discourse lectures. A contrastive study between Spanish and English medical lectures is carried out.
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Genre analysis based on spoken academic discourse is scarce compared to written academic discourse. This article focuses on the analysis Medical discourse as it is presented to university students.
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Academic spoken discourse has been a dominant issue for discourse studies researchers for the last 25 years or so. Different spoken academic genres have been analysed ( Swales, 1990 , 2004 ; Berkenkotter and Huckin, 1995 ; Bhatia, 2001 , 2002 ; Mauranen, 2001 ; Juzwik, 2004 ; Crawford-Camiciottoli, 2004 , 2007 ; among others) thanks to the compilation and the easy access to electronic spoken corpora.
Begoña Bellés-Fortuño
Universitat Jaume I
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This page is a summary of: Evaluative language in medical discourse, Languages in Contrast, November 2017, John Benjamins,
DOI: 10.1075/lic.15018.bel.
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