@inProceedings{kokkinakis-toporowskagronostaj-2006-language-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}, }