Date: 21-Jun-2007 From: Julia Ulrich <julia.ulrichdegruyter.com> Subject: Biomedizin Als Sprachliche Kontroverse: Domasch
Title: Biomedizin Als Sprachliche Kontroverse (Biomedicine as a Linguistic Controversy)
Subtitle: Die Thematisierung von Sprache im öffentlichen Diskurs zur Gendiagnostik
Series Title: Sprache und Wissen 1
Published: 2007
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
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Author: Silke Domasch
Hardback: ISBN: Pages: 275 Price: Europe EURO 98.00
Hardback: ISBN: Pages: 275 Price: U.S. $ 137.00 Comment: for USA, Canada & Mexico
Abstract:
The German verbs 'verwerfen', 'nicht implantieren' or 'abtöten' have the same denotations when used in reference to dealing with artificially-inseminated embryos; however, the meanings of these words are respectively different. The book examines, against the background of the debate about the introduction of pre-implantation diagnostics in Germany, the role of linguistic naming - so-called thematizations - in the public sphere. The study shows that these thematizations not only reflect linguistic controversy, but at the same time, precisely mirror the current societal debates.
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