Danglers in patient information leaflets and technical manuals: an issue for specialised translators?

Dangling participles and other types of ambiguous or unclear sentence constructions in directive and informative medical and technical texts, such as patient information leaflets (PILs) and technical manuals, render instructions unclear and potentially dangerous for the layman reader, i.e. a patient...

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Main Author: Henrik Køhler Simonsen
Format: Article
Language:deu
Published: ZHAW 2014-01-01
Series:JoSTrans: The Journal of Specialised Translation
Online Access:https://www.jostrans.org/article/view/7578
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