Translating for patients: approaching and adapting as a translating method

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  • Ingrid Cobos López Universidad de Córdoba

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https://doi.org/10.7203/qf.24.16307

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specialised discourse or technolect, translation and adaptation for the patient, biomedical translation, Plain English Campaign

Abstract

There are a lot of scientific publications related to cancer regarding the latest advances about its prevention, early detection, symptomatology, treatment and other issues derived from a carcinogenic process. However, most of these papers are in English, the basic vehicular language, and we can find its complex technolect in all of them; a technolect which is quite difficult to understand by the patient. With the aim of informing about this scientific knowledge in a clear and concise way for the patient, in the present work, we will propose some guidelines for the correct translation and adaptation of the mentioned texts in a direct and closer way to the patient.

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Ingrid Cobos López, Universidad de Córdoba

Department of Translation and Interpreting, Romance Languages, Semitic Studies and Documentation

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Published

2019-12-27

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Cobos López, I. (2019). Translating for patients: approaching and adapting as a translating method. Quaderns De Filologia - Estudis Lingüístics, 24(24), 211–228. https://doi.org/10.7203/qf.24.16307
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Vol. 24 (2019): Educating in translation and teaching from translation: state of the art and diachronic evolution

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