%0 Journal Article
%T Lexicographic studies in medicine: Academic Word List for clinical case histories
%A Philippa Mungra
%A Tatiana Canziani
%J Ib¨¦rica
%D 2013
%I AELFE (Asociaci¨®n Europea de Lenguas para Fines Espec¨ªficos)
%X Medical texts are often thought to pertain to a closed community, but how far the language used by that community overlaps with general academic lexis is unknown. We examined a corpus of clinical case histories using the software RANGE to characterise the lexis of clinical case histories quantitatively and present a wordlist for clinical medicine. Only 58% of the general academic wordlists are found in clinical texts but the 85% overlap with an important academic wordlist, the Coxhead 570, furnishes evidence for the academic nature of the lexis used for clinical cases in Medicine. There was little overlap (38%) between our clinical case wordlist and other wordlists of medical research articles but such overlap might constitute a core of medical lexis.
%K lexis
%K Medical English
%K Medical Academic Word List (MAWL)
%K clinical case histories
%K subject-specific wordlists
%U http://www.aelfe.org/documents/03_25_Mungra.pdf