Affiliation:
1. Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Abstract
Abstract
Within the last 15 years, more than 2.5 million “migrants” attended special language courses [so-called
integration courses] in Germany. In the last three years “vocational language courses” increased, especially courses in the field
of health care. The aim of the article is to show that language analysis in accordance with Edda Weigand’s MGM can help to get a
better insight into language usage, needed especially in the field of health care. By means of analysing one specific medical
dialogue, the need for seeing language use as intercultural use will be discussed.
Publisher
John Benjamins Publishing Company