Résultats de recherche

Revue: Neophilologica

Analyse linguistique d’un discours sur un événement en cours: le cas du 11 septembre 2001

Charlotte Danino

Date de publication: 31-12-2014 | Résumé | p. 106-121

The linguistic dimension of events is often considered from the point of view of subsequent discourses in the written media. From its first moments however, the event prompts spontaneous aural verbal reactions, which we can access thanks to audiovisual media. These almost concomitant linguistic productions are the target of our study, here using the example of September 11, 2001, which happened live on most channels, including CNN which provided us with our corpus. The core issue is that of meaning construction mechanisms, specifically, the issue of constructing a discourse when a stabilized meaning (of what is happening) is unavailable: how do we talk about something when we are not sure what we are talking about? How do we ground discourse and determine access to information between perception and expression, description and interpretation? These questions raise a number of methodological issues, which this presentation aims to account for. The proposed solutions will try to prove the relevance of cognitive semantics and more specifically that of instructional semantics (Col et al., 2012).

2014-12-31



Revue: Neophilologica

Introduzione al linguaggio della fisioterapia. Fenomeni linguistici rilevanti della comunicazione in ambito riabilitativo

Julia M. Murrmann

Date de publication: 31-12-2018 | Résumé | p. 197-211

The research object of the present paper is the language of physiotherapy, analyzed on the basis of records of an oral communication between specialists in movement rehabilitation and patients, and the corpus of articles of informative character, yet not on specialist but on popular science level, written by trained physiotherapists and addressed to non-expert readers seeking advice on the treatment of diseases and dysfunctions of the spinal column. The language of physiotherapists, who are officially representatives of the health system, relies heavily on the language of medicine, but its specificity is also due to its strong links with sport, biomechanics, healthcare, fitness industry, and social psychology, as well as to the character of the interaction between physiotherapists and patients. The conducted analysis enabled to identify typical lexical and morphosyntactic features of the language of physiotherapy. The discussed subject is in line with the research on effective communication between the patient and health providers which is essential for the delivery of high-quality medical care.

2018-12-31