Language, Corpora, and Health Communication : Bridging Corpus Linguistics, Medicine, and Digital Humanities

This book explores the intersection of language, corpus linguistics, and medical discourse, offering groundbreaking insights into health communication. A key contribution is the introduction of the Pakistani Medical Corpus (PMC), the first large-scale dataset of medical language in Pakistan. Through corpus-based analyses, the book examines discourse strategies, linguistic patterns, and communication trends in healthcare settings. Bridging linguistics and medical humanities, it advances research in interdisciplinary health communication while providing empirical data on Pakistani medical discourse. This volume will be essential reading for researchers in corpus linguistics, medical communication, and sociolinguistics, offering innovative methodologies and fresh perspectives on language in healthcare.