Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The paper traces the characteristics of modern medical language and motivates why it can be thought of as a kind of jargon that is often understandable only to those who know it. Examples are given of its typical features that can make it enigmatic for patients and even mislead them, as well as of some of its features, such as the use of the plural or specific medical humour, which further exacerbate the difficulties of dialogue with patients.
Author: Iveta Tasheva
Language: English
Subfield: Language and Linguistics
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4411697018