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Autore
Cappuzzo, Barbara

Titolo
Specialised English Lexicography. A Contrastive Analysis of two Monolingual Medical Dictionaries
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Anno: 2020 - Fascicolo: 1 - Pagina iniziale: 201 - Pagina finale: 223

Today information tends to be increasingly specialised. Moreover, Englishis the language of most scientific literature worldwide. Within this context,English dictionaries are very important reference tools which help improveexchange among members of a given professional community. Of thedifferent specialised languages, the medical one perhaps undergoes thefastest changes parallel to the continuous and rapid advances in the medicalsciences. However, research on medical lexicography seems to lack studieson monolingual medical dictionaries – especially from a comparative, bothsynchronic and diachronic, point of view.This paper aims to offer a contrastive analysis of some featuresof two of the most influential and authoritative British and Americanmonolingual medical dictionaries. More precisely, the latest edition (2017)of the British Black’s Medical Dictionary and the latest edition (2006) of theAmerican Stedman’s Medical Dictionary will be compared to two of theircorresponding earlier editions published, respectively, in 1981 and in 1982.A corpus of entries concerning the skeletal system and related disorderswill be investigated, since the aim of the analysis is also to highlight theimportance of including the two dictionaries in the curricula of ItalianUniversity sports sciences degree courses. Emphasis will be placed on howthe data is treated at both a macrostructural and a microstructural level.Particular attention will be focused on the organisation of meaning, as wellas on the important cognitive function displayed in the treatment of data.



SICI: 1824-3967(2020)1<201:SELACA>2.0.ZU;2-T
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