A Linguistic Analysis of Biomedical Abstracts

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KS OmniScriptum Publishing

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491_9783639140842

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An old credo in academia reads Publish or perish. But what the credo fails to mention is that current publications are largely published in only one language - English. This book aims to examine variation in biomedical writing according to the authors countries of origin and first language. The significance of these studies regards the growing number of second language (L2) specialized researchers attempting to publish their research in national and international English-language journals, but who find themselves locked out of the discussion and unable to contribute ideas and innovations to the biomedical fields due to different linguistic and discourse conventions. The present examination aims to provide a more thorough and quantitative understanding of the prototypical linguistic components in biomedicine, and to suggest how word-, sentence-, and discourse-level structures can be researched, taught, and developed into workshop or educational materials. This improved understanding is expected to provide a powerful apparatus for the promotion of L2 English writers in biomedical fields.

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