A sociosemiotic exploration of medical legislation reform in China (1990–2021)

Junfeng Zhao; Jingjing Wu; Yi Yang

doi:10.1515/ijld-2021-2054

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A sociosemiotic exploration of medical legislation reform in China (1990–2021)

Junfeng Zhao
Junfeng Zhao, PhD in forensic linguistics, is Professor and Director of Centre for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS). He is the Secretary General of the third China National Committee for Translation and Interpreting Education, Vice President of WITTA, Vice Director of Legal Translation Committee of TAC, Vice Chairman of Translators Association of Guangdong Province, China. From 2014 to 2018 he was the dean of the School of Interpreting and Translation Studies (SITS), GDUFS. He has published extensively in translation and interpreting studies, especially in legal translation and court interpreting domains.
, Jingjing Wu
Jingjing Wu is Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Studies at Guangxi University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include legal discourse and translation, institutional discourse and sociolinguistics.
and Yi Yang
Yi Yang is Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Guangxi University of Science and Technology. He studied finance at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is mainly engaged in the research of corporate finance, banking and stock market. He is Vice Chairman of Liuzhou Institute of Finance, Director of Liuzhou Institute of Accounting, and member of the Guangxi Teaching Guidance Committee for Economics and Finance Major of Colleges.

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From the journal International Journal of Legal Discourse Volume 6 Issue 2

Abstract

The medical service system is an important guarantee for human rights to survival, health and development of every social member, and thus it is significant to explore, interpret and explain the diachronic construction for its legislative reform. In a corpus approach, the study firstly collects the medical-related statutes from 1990 to 2021 in China to build the P.R.C. Medical Legislation Corpus (PRCMLC), and analyzes the keywords and their collocation in the exploratory, explosive and expanding phase of the medical legislative reform. Secondly, from the perspectives of sociosemiotics, the PRCMLC data is combined with the concrete medical laws and regulations for further discussion of the MSS, MIS, DSS and PHS in legislative system. Thirdly, the study explores the core legislative ideas and the relationships among the subsystems in the diachronic analysis, which provide a general overview of the legislative objects, target, participants and mechanisms in the medical reform of China.

Keywords: diachronic; medical legislation; PRCMLC; reform; sociosemiotics

Corresponding author: Jingjing Wu, School of Foreign Studies, Guangxi University of Science and Technology, Liuzhou, China, E-mail: 21111512@qq.com

About the authors

Junfeng Zhao

Junfeng Zhao, PhD in forensic linguistics, is Professor and Director of Centre for Translation Studies, Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS). He is the Secretary General of the third China National Committee for Translation and Interpreting Education, Vice President of WITTA, Vice Director of Legal Translation Committee of TAC, Vice Chairman of Translators Association of Guangdong Province, China. From 2014 to 2018 he was the dean of the School of Interpreting and Translation Studies (SITS), GDUFS. He has published extensively in translation and interpreting studies, especially in legal translation and court interpreting domains.

Jingjing Wu

Jingjing Wu is Associate Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Foreign Studies at Guangxi University of Science and Technology. Her research interests include legal discourse and translation, institutional discourse and sociolinguistics.

Yi Yang

Yi Yang is Professor and Vice Dean of the School of Economics and Management at Guangxi University of Science and Technology. He studied finance at Shanghai University of Finance and Economics. He is mainly engaged in the research of corporate finance, banking and stock market. He is Vice Chairman of Liuzhou Institute of Finance, Director of Liuzhou Institute of Accounting, and member of the Guangxi Teaching Guidance Committee for Economics and Finance Major of Colleges.

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Received: 2021-03-20

Accepted: 2021-08-29

Published Online: 2021-11-24

Published in Print: 2021-12-20

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diachronic; medical legislation; PRCMLC; reform; sociosemiotics