{"id":5007,"date":"2026-03-07T00:04:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:04:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/?p=5007"},"modified":"2026-03-07T00:04:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T21:04:29","slug":"45flsk425","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/45flsk425.html","title":{"rendered":"Ways of introducing specialized terminology into popular scientific narratives on medical topics (based on the works of H. Marsh)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nagornaya Alexandra Viktorovna<\/strong>
\nNational Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
\nE-mail: anagornaya@hse.ru; alnag@mail.ru
\nORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6821-0835<\/a>
\nRSCI: https:\/\/elibrary.ru\/author_profile.asp?id=391771<\/a><\/p>\n

Pinchukova Anna Evgenievna<\/strong>
\nNational Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia
\nE-mail: apinchukova@hse.ru; annaepinchukova@yandex.ru
\nORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-8069-3746<\/a>
\nRSCI: https:\/\/elibrary.ru\/author_profile.asp?id=1264642<\/a><\/p>\n

Abstract.<\/strong> The article examines the use of specialized terminology in popular science texts on medical topics. It focuses on the phenomenon of popularizing medical knowledge in contemporary English-language culture, identifies the reasons for the widespread demand for this type of literature (the need for reliable information, increased personalization of medical texts, and the diversity of genres and formats in popular science literature), and defines the role of creative writing in the professional practice of physicians. The psychotherapeutic potential of such works is emphasized, both for the physician authors and for their readers. Utilizing the popular science bestseller \u00abDo No Harm: Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery\u00bb by British neurologist Henry Marsh, it discusses ways to adapt medical terminology to the needs and perceptive capabilities of a mass reader. The primary objective is a quantitative and qualitative analysis of the terminology used in the work and the ways it is integrated into the narrative. The article calculates the terminology coefficient of the narrative and concludes that, despite the simplified readability of popular science texts, the terminology coefficient nevertheless indicates a lower variation in the use of terminology in scientific articles and popular science works by H. Marsh. Six types of contexts within which medical terminology is introduced (definitional, explanatory, illustrative, generalizing, metaterminological, and ambience-building) are identified, and the specifics of their organization are explained.<\/p>\n

Keywords:<\/strong> narrative; popular science literature; popular science text; nonfiction; medicine; terminology; readability index; Henry Marsh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nagornaya Alexandra Viktorovna National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia E-mail: anagornaya@hse.ru; alnag@mail.ru ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6821-0835 RSCI: https:\/\/elibrary.ru\/author_profile.asp?id=391771 Pinchukova Anna Evgenievna National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia E-mail: apinchukova@hse.ru; annaepinchukova@yandex.ru ORCID: https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0008-8069-3746 RSCI: https:\/\/elibrary.ru\/author_profile.asp?id=1264642 Abstract. The …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issue-4-2025","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5008,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5007\/revisions\/5008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sfk-mn.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}