Medical Writing
Author: Minna Vihla
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9789042007086
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing data from a new corpus of contemporary American medical texts, Vihl analyzes model expressions such as may, must, and possibly as they are used in medical English. She thinks that knowing how modal expressions are distributed and their pragmatic functions in the texts can help when teaching professional writing to non-native speakers, and clarify how language is institutionally situated. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR