Le nouveau langage de la médecine: Une affaire de socioterminologie

Abstract

An age-old science, medicine has had to follow in the steps of history for millenniums. Little wonder, then, if medical language - and, hence, terminology - has always been influenced, over the years, by its successive users. The medical translator is bound to realize that the medical sociolect, far from feeding on an exact and objective terminology, is in fact prey to synchronic as well as diachronic instability.