Year: 2013
Type: article
Abstract: Medical texts are often thought to pertain to a closed community, but how far\nthe language used by that community overlaps with general academic lexis is\nunknown. We examined a corpus of clinical case histories using the software\nRANGE to characterise the lexis of clinical case histories quantitatively and\npresent a wordlist for clinical medicine. Only 58% of the general academic\nwordlists are found in clinical texts but the 85% overlap with an important\nacademic wordlist, the Coxhead 570, furnishes evidence for the academic nature\nof the lexis used for clinical cases in Medicine. There was little overlap (38%)\nbetween our clinical case wordlist and other wordlists of medical research\narticles but such overlap might constitute a core of medical lexis.
Authors: Philippa Mungra, Tatiana Canziani
Language: English
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W1608235794