A STYLISTIC ANALYSIS OF SELECTED MEDICAL ARTICLES

Abstract

Medical language, in fact, is challenging, attractive, and has obscure nature due to the scientific concepts and lexical-specific terms. This study investigates the medical register in selected internet articles from syntactic, semantic, and, stylistic aspects. The study has proposed some hypotheses that passivation is extensively used in medical language,  Having the data from the net chosen and analyzed, the study has come up with a number of conclusions, such as passive tenses are commonly used in medical articles. The main medical words are derived from Latin and Greek words. They are also often derived from eponyms, medical language, like any other scientific language, is full of abbreviations, acronyms, complicated and obscure words.