Publications

Publication details [#46660]

Becker, Andrea. 2001. Populärmedizinische Vermittlungstexte. Studien zur Geschichte und Gegenwart fachexterner Vermittlungsvarietäten. [Popularizing Medical Knowledge. Studies on past and present varieties of non-specialist dissemination.] (Reihe Germanistische Linguistik 225). De Gruyter. XI+312 pp.

Publication type

Book – monograph

Publication language

German

Keywords

knowledge updating | language use | medical language | popular culture | text

Language as a subject

German

Annotation

This study examines the popularization of medical knowledge through texts from the early modern age up to the present. Non-specialist communication is defined (as oriented both to science and the everyday world) and distinguished from other knowledge transfer systems. .