Language, Pharmacy and Society

This book explores the vital role language plays in shaping how we understand and discuss medicines, making for a more detailed study of pharmaceutical and pharmacological language to more clearly understand the intersection of language, health, and culture.

Autorentext

Milton Fernando Gonzalez Rodriguez is a Research Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium.

Inhalt

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

Transcription Symbols

Introduction ****

1. Linguistic Logistics

1.1. Polyfunctionality of Language

1.2. Logistics and Linguistics

2. ****Science, Materia Medica and Words

2.1. Chemical Sounds

2.2. Pharmacognosy and Local Knowledge

3. Morphology and Pharmaceuticals ****

3.1. Infixes, Identities and References

3.2. Pharmaceutically Nominal and Nominally Pharmaceutical

3.3. Sociolinguistics of Pharmacy

4. Novelty, Lexicon and Medicines

4.1. In Terms of Science

4.2. Branding, Pharmaceuticalization, and Translation

5. Linguistic By-Products of Pharmacy

5.1. The Sounds of Sexual Pharmacy

5.2. Psychoactive Substances Slang

5.3. Pharmaceutical Aural and Oral Side Effects

Conclusion

Appendix

References

Index