What is it about?
It is a review of the terms patients tend to use when they talk about private health issues (sexuality, digestive problems, etc.) in English and French.
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Why is it important?
The terms might not be easily understandable by healthcare professionals that are non-native speakers of English because they are borrowed from lay language and deeply-engrained in culture.
Perspectives
It should help foreign healthcare professionals understand native French and English patients and therefore improve doctor-patient communication.
Pascaline FAURE
COMUE Sorbonne Universites
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This page is a summary of: Euphemism as a core feature of patientese: A comparative study between English and French, Language Learning in Higher Education, January 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/cercles-2016-0008.
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