Editing and Style in Popular Medical Writing
Abstract
Medical language is a scientific and technical language, and as such, it must respect four basic pillars: precision, clarity, conciseness and veracity. Therefore, despite being a specialized language, it should not be exempt from the rules of the Spanish language, but should be rigorously adjusted to them. However, far from complying with these four premises mentioned above, we observe that this type of discourse abounds in certain orthographic, grammatical, lexical and stylistic deficiencies, which prevent the information transmitted from reaching the population in a clear and transparent manner. In this study we intend to carry out a qualitative analysis of all those linguistic elements that hinder the understanding of medical discourse from a corpus of popularization texts for patients interested in the topic of Assisted Reproduction.
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