Clinical case reports in Catalan: Vitality and suggestions Authors Adéla Ko?átková Institut Interuniversitari López Piñero. Universitat Jaume I Keywords: medical communication, discursive genres, clinical case report, Catalan in health sciences, language uses, mental health. Abstract Healthcare professionals have a genre at their disposal to narrate the clinical experiences of their patients for didactic or research purposes. This genre is the clinical case report (CCR), a type of highly specialized narrative with specific rhetorical features. Because they are not canonical research articles, CCRs had been relegated to a secondary role in traditional scientific journals. However, they are now acquiring a growing presence in online journals. In addition, they are widely used in the training of future healthcare professionals. Therefore, any language community that aspires to reverse language shift should ensure that it is also present in this genre. Based on the revision of a CCR corpus in the field of mental health, in this paper we discuss the characteristics of CCRs in Catalan and their vitality, and we make some suggestions for improving the contribution of this genre to the dissemination of the Catalan language in health sciences.Keywords: medical communication, discursive genres, clinical case report, Catalan in health sciences, language uses, mental health. Downloads Download data is not yet available. Downloads PDF (Català) Published 2021-03-25 Issue No. 31 (2021): L’estandardologia comparada: teoria i pràctica Section Secció Miscel·lània License Intellectual property Intellectual property in articles belongs to the respective authors. By submitting their articles to TSC to request their publication, authors agree to the following: Authors assign all rights of reproduction, public communication and distribution of articles submitted for publication in TSC to the SCS (a subsidiary of the IEC). Authors are accountable to the SCS for the authorship and originality of their articles. It is the responsibility of authors to obtain permissions to reproduce graphic material sourced from elsewhere and included in their articles. The SCS may not be held liable for any possible violation of intellectual property rights by authors. Material published in TSC is subject - unless otherwise indicated in the text or in graphic material - to a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Spain (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 ES) licence, the full text of which can be found at this link. Accordingly, the general public may reproduce, distribute and communicate the article provided the author and publisher are acknowledged and as long as no commercial or derivative use is made of the article. TSC cannot be held responsible for ideas and opinions as expressed by the authors of articles published in the journal.
