Focus and Scope

This journal focuses on article themes related, but not limited, to: 

1. Language and Discourse in Medical and Clinical Contexts

• Medical discourse analysis
• Doctor–patient interaction and clinical communication
• Institutional discourse in healthcare settings
• Public health and policy discourse
• Ethical communication in medical practice

2. Sociolinguistics of Health and Illness

• Language, identity, and illness narratives
• Health communication in multilingual and multicultural settings
• Language variation in clinical encounters
• Power relations and inequality in healthcare communication

3. Medical Communication in Digital and Media Contexts

• Health discourse in digital and social media
• Online medical consultation and telemedicine communication
• Computer-mediated health interaction
• Multimodal medical texts and visual–verbal communication

4. Applied Medical Linguistics and Health Communication

• Communication strategies in clinical and professional settings
• Patient education and health literacy
• Discourse-based approaches to medical training
• Language use in healthcare organizations

5. Medical Translation and Interpreting

• Medical translation as cross-lingual health communication
• Interpreting in clinical and institutional healthcare settings
• Pragmatics and ethics in medical translation
• Cross-cultural mediation in health services