La terminologia medica: l’esempio della cardiologia. Un confronto fra tedesco e italiano

Abstract

The present paper aims at analysing the medical language as LSP and, in particular, the language of cardiology by comparing and contrasting Italian and German. The author focuses on a German corpus consisting of a cardiology handbook and various national guidelines for the diagnosis and therapy of cardiovascular diseases. The corpus is analysed both from a quantitative and a qualitative point of view. The quantitative analysis is processed via AntConc. The morphology of terms will be discussed and commented upon as well as the process of resemantisation.