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Contrastive Linguistics and Discourse Analysis

What is it about?

This study focuses on the genre of lecture as “the central ritual of the culture of learning” (Benson, 1994 ) in higher education. Here, I analyse the use of evaluative language in medical discourse lectures. A contrastive study between Spanish and English medical lectures is carried out.

Why is it important?

Genre analysis based on spoken academic discourse is scarce compared to written academic discourse. This article focuses on the analysis Medical discourse as it is presented to university students.

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