Professional and lay medical texts in the eighteenth century:: A linguistic stylistic assessment
Professional and lay medical texts in the eighteenth century:: A linguistic stylistic assessment
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十八世纪的专业和非专业医学文本：语言风格评估
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10.1075/z.221.09taa
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2019
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I. Taavitsainen
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I. Taavitsainen
本研究旨在探讨不同出版渠道、不同受众的医学文本的文体特征。我的目的是探讨是否有专业和非专业观众之间的医学著作的差异。作者大多属于受过教育的专业人士，他们为同龄人写作，但也有为普通读者写作的作品。传播新医学知识的最重要渠道是通过专著，但第一批专业医学期刊创办于1730年代。第一本面向上流社会读者的杂志也是在同一个年代创办的。文本处理时尚的话题，如接种，长寿，海水浴，空气和水是相互比较。本文首先采用语料库语言学方法，通过定性语篇分析，指出值得进一步研究的特点。面向专业读者的文章依赖于基于知识的论点，而面向普通读者的文章包含更多情感语言的使用，其中存在礼貌的社会写作风格。专业和非专业之间的二分法证明是有问题的，特别是在一些文本中，表达了新的新兴趋势。根据目前的数据，关于专业人员和非专业人员之间有明确界线的假设是站不住脚的。
This study focuses on stylistic features in medical texts for different audiences in various channels of publication. My aim is to explore whether there are differences between medical writings for professional and lay audiences. Authors mostly belonged to educated professionals who wrote for their peers, but there are also writings for general audiences. The most important channel for communicating new medical knowledge was through monographs, but the first specialized medical journals were founded in the 1730s. The first magazine for polite society readership was established in the same decade. Texts dealing with fashionable topics like inoculation, longevity, sea bathing, air and water are compared to one another. Corpus-linguistic methods were employed first to point out features worth further study with qualitative discourse analysis, which is the main method. Writings for professional audiences rely on knowledge-based arguments, while texts for lay readers contain more emotive language use, where a polite society style of writing is present. The dichotomy between professional and lay proves problematic especially in some texts that give expression to new emergent trends. In the light of the present data, the assumption of a clear borderline between professional and lay does not hold.