Speech Features of Clinical Guidelines for Paramedics, Medical Assistants, Ambulance Service, Air and Disaster Medicine Staff

The article examines speech characteristics of clinical guidelines, or recommendations, for medical assistants, ambulance service, air and disaster medicine staff. The study focuses on clinical guidelines in Russian and English used in the Russian Federation, former Soviet republics (Belarus, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan), Europe, the USA, and Australia. The application of a functional-and-stylistic approach prior to linguistic stylistic analysis has enabled the authors to classify clinical guidelines into informational, which contain advice on emergency medical care methods (their primary function is informative, aimed at specialists); and impactful, designed to guide first aid providers through a specific algorithm and help them navigate emergency situations (their primary function is regulatory, aimed at non-specialists). The study reveals a correlation between substantive, functional-and-communicative, stylistic, and linguistic features with the sphere of functioning (rapid response situations, providing medical care in extreme conditions) and the nature of the information presented in clinical guidelines (operative). The means of implementing such genre constituents as communicative purpose, functions, semantic notional dominant of the genre, linguistic explication of the genre bear close scrutiny. The texts of guidelines are analyzed with the focus on lexical, morphological, and syntactic features, as well as compositional organization. The imagery used in the guidelines is also described. The polycode and polytextual nature of clinical recommendations is demonstrated

Disaster medicine · Explication · Focus (optics) · Function (biology) · MEDLINE · Notional amount · Primary care · Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication · Healthcare Systems and Public Health · Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies