Publications

Publication details [#13690]

Busch-Lauer, Ines. 1995. Textual Organization in English and German Medical Abstracts. In Wårvik, Brita, Sanna-Kaisa Tanskanen and Risto Hiltunen, eds. Organization in Discourse. Proceedings from the Turku Conference. (Anglicana Turkuensia 15). University of Turku. pp. 175–186.

Publication type

Article in book

Publication language

English

Keywords

crosscultural communication | medical language | text organization

Language as a subject

English | German

Annotation

It is the purpose of this paper to present preliminary findings on contrasting text organization principles in English NS and English and German NNS medical abstracts drawn from specialist journals of different degrees of professionalism.