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If You Pop Over There: A Corpus-based Study of Conditionals in Medical Discourse.
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Ferguson, Gibson – English for Specific Purposes, 2001
Focuses on if conditionals in medical discourse. Three genres are examined: research articles, journal editorials, and doctor-patient consultations. Analyzes a variety of formal, semantic, and pragmatic aspects of conditionals across genres. Concludes with brief reflections on pedagogic implications. (Author/VWL)
Descriptors: Computational Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, English (Second Language), Language Styles