医学英语中的模糊语及其交际功能

Vague Language in Medical English and Its Communicative Functions

模糊语是言语交际中不可缺少的一种重要表达手段,在医学英语中也离不开对模糊语的使用。本文从对模糊语表现形式的分析入手,探讨和总结了模糊语在医学英语中具有体现礼貌和尊重、语言的准确性和可信度、谦虚和自我保护等交际功能。这便于医学工作者进一步了解模糊语这一特殊语言形式,在实际工作中灵活运用模糊语,从而达到成功交际的目的。

Vague language, a kind of indispensable expression in communication, is widly used in medical English. Based on the analysis of expressional forms of vague language, the paper probes into and summarizes the following communicative functions as courtesy and respect, exactness and credibility Of language, modesty and self-protection. It aims at making medical personal understand vage language further and use it flexibly in practice, thereby achieve successful communication.