In-Between Discourse and Genre: Doctor-Patient Interaction in Online Communication.

• Authors: Marianna Lya Zummo
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper presents the results of a corpus-based study which investigates the genre of medical eexchanges between doctors and medical website users. Three conversational routines (greetings, politeness, formal and informal linguistic features) are analyzed. The framework of the study is what some researchers refer to as net linguistics (Posteguillo 2003), consisting of the linguistic study of Computer Mediated Communication (CMC). The findings indicate that health posts are a relatively informal type of d/p interaction which is largely influenced by e-mails and chat conventions.

Keywords

EN

CMC; genre; medical discourse; written speech

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Romanian Journal of English Studies
• Year: 2012
• Volume: 9
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 78-90

Dates

published

2012-12-01

online

2013-02-21

Contributors

author

Marianna Lya Zummo

• Università degli Studi di Palermo

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10319-012-0009-8