If you pop over there: a corpus-based study of conditionals in medical discourse  

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Ferguson, Gibson

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: English for Specific Purposes (Full Text) vol. 20 no. 1 (2001), page 61-82.
Fulltext: 20_01_Ferguson.pdf (172.14KB)

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Perpustakaan PKBB Nomor Panggil: 405/ESP/20 Non-tandon: tidak ada Tandon: 1

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There has been relatively little examination of conditionals in naturally occurring discourse as opposed to studies based on intuition-derived data. The aim of this study, then, is to complement previous work by focusing on if-conditionals in medical discourse. Three genres are selected for study: research articles, journal editorials and doctor-patient consultations. The fact that two genres are written and one spoken allows comparison of conditional use in speech and writing. The data comprise a total of 177 if-conditionals from a 100,000-word sub-corpus. The study focuses on a variety of formal, semantic and pragmatic aspects of conditionals, and shows that there are, indeed, interesting differences in the use of conditionals across genres. In the spoken consultations for instance, conditionals prove a useful resource for managing the interaction with politeness and sensitivity. In the methods sections of research articles, by contrast, conditionals mainly function to provide operational definitions. The paper concludes with some brief reflections on pedagogic implications.

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