Verb Collocations in Medical English  

作　　者：Bionote Evelina Miscin 

机构地区：[1]College of Business and Management, Zagreb, Croatia

出　　处：《US-China Foreign Language》2013年第8期609-618,共10页美中外语（英文版）

摘　　要：The aim of this paper was to investigate the most frequent verb collocations which occur in medical texts and to check the competence of the first-year students of medical English in using them. Merck＇s Manual of Medical Information （2004） was used as a corpus to find the most frequent collocations. It was analyzed by several programmes like Simple Concordance, Collocation Extract, TermeX. The corpus analysis established that the nouns ＂function＂ and ＂infection＂ occur with most verbs （30）. They are followed by ＂pain＂ （28 verbs）, ＂muscle＂ （24 verbs）. Three hundred and sixty-two verbs occur with nouns and among them the most frequent are ＂cause＂, ＂have＂, ＂develop＂, ＂treat＂, ＂prevent＂, and ＂produce＂. After that, the test was devised to see which collocations students use with the most competence. Two hundred and ninety-seven first-year students of School of Medicine in Zagreb were tested. There were four types of exercises--multiple choice, gap-fill, translation from English into Croatian, and vice versa. The average result in multiple choice was 9.8 with the s = 2.0 as a standard deviation, in gap-fill 5.0 with s = 2.17, in translation into Croatian 6.7 with s = 2.10, and in translation into English 5.2 with s = 2.53. Then, glossary was made which should help future users of medical English

关 键 词：COLLOCATIONS collocational competence CORPUS collocational mistakes GLOSSARY 

分 类 号：H31[语言文字—英语] G354[文化科学—情报学]