Language, Corpora, and Health Communication
Description
This book explores the intersection of language, corpus linguistics, and medical discourse, offering groundbreaking insights into health communication. A key contribution is the introduction of the Pakistani Medical Corpus (PMC), the first large-scale dataset of medical language in Pakistan. Through corpus-based analyses, the book examines discourse strategies, linguistic patterns, and communication trends in healthcare settings. Bridging linguistics and medical humanities, it advances research in interdisciplinary health communication while providing empirical data on Pakistani medical discourse. This volume will be essential reading for researchers in corpus linguistics, medical communication, and sociolinguistics, offering innovative methodologies and fresh perspectives on language in healthcare.
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Persons
Muhammad Afzaal is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Language Sciences, Shanghai International Studies University, China. His research focuses on various areas, including corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, critical discourse analysis, translation studies, and the integration of language sciences with NLP and big data.
Adnan Tahir is a Professor in the Department of English at Emerson University, Multan, Pakistan. His research interests include Applied/Educational Linguistics, corpus linguistics, language teacher education and socialization, professional development, discourse analysis, and gender issues in language teacher socialization.
Content
Chapter 1 Introduction, Language and Health Communication in the Digital Age.- Chapter 2 Digital Humanities and the Diachronic Study of Grammatical Complexity: Evidence from Pakistani Medical Corpus.- Chapter 3 Lexical Dynamics in Pakistani Medical Blogs: Digital Healthcare Trends.- Chapter 4 Syntactic and Lexical Patterns in Medical Case Reports: A Comparative Corpus Study.- Chapter 5 MedSent: Introducing a Novel Framework for Sentiment Analysis in E-health Communication.- Chapter 6 Lexical Diversity in Native and Non-Native L2 Writing of Medical Journal Articles.- Chapter 7 Advancing Medical Word List in Pakistan Medical Corpus.- Chapter 8 Metadiscourse Features in Health Communication: A Diachronic Analysis.- Chapter 9 Depicting the Profile of Rhetorical Structures and Discourse Complexity in Pakistani Medical Dissertations.- Chapter 10 Conclusion.