Language and health care: food for thought
- Autores: Enrique Alcaraz Varó
- Localización: The language of health care: proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Language and Health Care. Alicante, 24th, 25th and 26th October 2007 / coord. por Miguel Ángel Campos Pardillos, Adelina Gómez González-Jover, 2008, ISBN 978-84-691-2836-7, pág. 1
- Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
This paper upholds the view that the language of health care is food for thought for the linguist. As easily understood, "thought" in this case implies observation, reflection, analysis, examination, in short, research. The lecture could said to consist of three large parts: Introductory remarks, the concept of language through the theory of linguistic paradigms, and the contributions of these paradigms for a better understanding of the language of health care. The introductory remarks present the setting, which is knowlege society, and discusses two relevant notions in this framework: interdisciplinarity and applied linguistics. The second parts makes a survey of the approach to language by means of four recent linguistic paradigms: structuralism, generativism, pragmatics and cognitivism. The third parts highlight the contribution of each paradigmfor a better understanding of the language of health care, such as clinical linguistics, psycholinguistics, patient-doctor interaction, professional genres, etc. The paper closes with a long list of reasons that try to justify that the language of health care is food for thought.
