Discourse of Drug Information for Experts and Patients
49documents, albeit used in a different way. The fact that the linguistic
descriptions of the same situation differ depending on whether they
address experts or patients is a clear indication of the existence of different
knowledge frames with respect to which the conceived situations are
described. This finding exceeds previous investigations of PILs, which
have been limited to the description of macrostructural and linguistic
phenomena without taking the inherent relationship between conceptual
structures and linguistic choices into account.
Finally, the present study shed some light on the relationship between
SmPCs and PILs, and represents a first step towards a more
comprehensive investigation of both documents inspired by Cognitive
Linguistics.
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