Medical English as a Lingua Franca

Medical English as a Lingua FrancaIn this first book length treatment of MELF, the authors assert that MELF represents an important contribution to our understanding of English as a Lingua Franca (ELF), in that existing ELF research has been limited to relatively low stakes communicative situations, such as interactions in business, academia, internet blogging or casual conversations. Medical contexts, in contrast, often represent situations calling for exceptional communicative

viewed within a methodically open perspective on the history of Christianity

Topics range from youth culture to children's rights

Theoretically rich yet conversational

and philosophy converge to expose the precariousness of knowledge

Herder: His Life and Thought aims to offer a comprehensive biography of Johann Gottfried von Herder

although doctors and psychologists found no evidence of abuse

Part memoir

Red Joan centers on the deeply conflicted life of a young physicist during the Second World War

threats to Indigenous communities

market demands

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