@inProceedings{Kokkinakis-Dimitrios2006-33938,
title = {Lay Language versus Professional Language within the Cardiovascular Subdomain - a Contrastive Study},
abstract = {This paper reports on a corpus-based, contrastive study of Swedish medical language. It is focused on the vocabulary used in two types of medical
textual material: professional portals and web-based consumer sites within the domain of cardiovascular disorders. Linguistic, statistical and
quantitatively based readability studies are considered in order to find the typical language-dependent and, possibly, language independent
characteristics of the material examined and suggest concrete measures that might bridge the gap in medical vocabulary as used by laypersons/consumers
and professionals. },
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2006 WSEAS Int. Conf. on Cellular & Molecular Biology, Biophysics & Bioengineering},
author = {Kokkinakis, Dimitrios and Toporowska Gronostaj, Maria},
year = {2006},
}