A sociosemiotic exploration of medical legislation reform in China (1990–2021)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
About the authors
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 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 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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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Terminology as a source of difficulty in translating international legal discourses: an empirical cross-genre study
- Exploring digital economy: a sociosemiotic perspective
- A sociosemiotic exploration of medical legislation reform in China (1990–2021)
- A sociosemiotic interpretation of cultural heritage in UNESCO legal instruments: a corpus-based study
- Visualizing international studies on cyberspace sovereignty: concept, rationality, and legitimacy
- A science mapping of studies on courtroom discourse with CiteSpace
- Exploring the U.S. institutional discourse about critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP): a corpus-based analysis
- Legislative discourse of digital governance: a corpus-driven comparative study of laws in the European Union and China
- Reviews
- Eduardo C. B. Bittar (2020): Semiotics, law & art: between theory of justice and theory of law
- Julian Wyatt (2019): intertemporal linguistics in international law: beyond contemporaneous and evolutionary treaty interpretation
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Research Articles
- Terminology as a source of difficulty in translating international legal discourses: an empirical cross-genre study
- Exploring digital economy: a sociosemiotic perspective
- A sociosemiotic exploration of medical legislation reform in China (1990–2021)
- A sociosemiotic interpretation of cultural heritage in UNESCO legal instruments: a corpus-based study
- Visualizing international studies on cyberspace sovereignty: concept, rationality, and legitimacy
- A science mapping of studies on courtroom discourse with CiteSpace
- Exploring the U.S. institutional discourse about critical information infrastructure protection (CIIP): a corpus-based analysis
- Legislative discourse of digital governance: a corpus-driven comparative study of laws in the European Union and China
- Reviews
- Eduardo C. B. Bittar (2020): Semiotics, law & art: between theory of justice and theory of law
- Julian Wyatt (2019): intertemporal linguistics in international law: beyond contemporaneous and evolutionary treaty interpretation
