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Publication details [#10546]
Brunt, Richard J. 1987. 'My waterworks are playing me up something chronic': The description of the English of medicine and some didactic implications. In Lörscher, Wolfgang and Rainer Schulze, eds. Perspectives on language in performance: Studies in linguistics, criticism, and language teaching and learning. To honour Werner Hüllen on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Gunter Narr. pp. 447–469.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
Language as a subject
Annotation
B. considers the nature of medical English, types of communication occurring in medical contexts, and the consequences for teaching English to students of medicine.