The language of medicine demonstrates a remarkable lexical inventiveness: neologisms, loanwords, euphemisms, metaphors, abbreviations and codes. This study day will be the opportunity to discover and compare this inventiveness among various languages (English, French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese) and to tackle the issue of the dominance of English in present and future medical languages.

Pascaline Faure is a Professor in medical English and medical French. She is the head of Sorbonne University’s medical English department. She takes a special interest in the lexicological and the cultural aspects of English and French for medical purposes. Her research is also devoted to LMP teacher training and metaphorical grammar for learners from the medical field.

The Centre de Linguistique en Sorbonne (CeLiSo - EA 7332) welcomes Sorbonne University's researchers that are specialists of German, English, Dutch, Northern and Slavic languages grammar. Their actvities pertain to fundamental research. Yet, this research finds its practical application in the teaching of foreign languages as these researchers participate into the education of Sorbonne University's students, notably those that aim to become language teachers themselves.

Sorbonne University is a multidisciplinary university with world-famous origins. Continuing the humanist tradition of the Sorbonne, it is devoted to meeting the scientific challenges of the 21st century. Sorbonne University’s three faculties in humanities, medicine and science conduct ambitious programs in both research and education. The University’s 53,500 students, 3,400 professor-researchers and 3,600 administrative and technical staff members contribute to a University that is diverse, creative and innovative.

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