Speech features clinical guidelines for patients
- DOI
- 10.5922/pikbfu-2024-1-4
- Pages
- 39-50
Abstract
The article has identified the main functions of clinical recommendations for patients (presented in written printed form and computer-mediated). It is determined that depending on the dominant function, clinical recommendations for patients can be classified into several types: those containing information about the disease — informative (leading function — informative); created to encourage patients to take care of their own health, engage in disease prevention — persuasive (leading function — pragmatic); created to attract potential clients to a medical institution, shape the organization’s image, promote medical products and services — advertising (leading function — representational). Based on the analyzed material, recommendations of the first two types are proposed to be grouped together and qualified as an informative-imperative hyper genre. Through the analysis of texts, it is proven that the linguistic features of clinical recommendations for patients are determined by the functions they perform (pragmatic, attractive, personifying, explicative, regulatory, phatic). Informative, representational, and cumulative functions do not imply any linguistic specificity in the texts. It is revealed that the specificity of clinical recommendations for patients as a particular medical genre (a genre of scientific document) lies in the combination of persuasive and informative intentions with the dominance of the latter. The established specificity of the linguistic organization of clinical guidelines complements existing information about the linguistic properties of a hybrid text (a text of a scientific document, the linguistic features of which are revealed in the realization of its genre elements and in the interaction of features of official-business and scientific styles of the Russian language), refining the typology of document systems.