应急语言服务视角下的新冠肺炎医学英语专题术语表开发
2021-04-22李龙兴王宪
李龙兴 王宪



摘 要:新型冠状病毒肺炎在全球的迅速蔓延,让我们深刻意识到突发公共卫生危机中应急医疗和社会治理之外,应急知识和语言服务的重要性。以词表开发和术语管理等形式提供的术语支援是应急语言服务的一种重要方式和途径,是保障精确沟通、顺畅传播的必要条件。文章从应急语言服务视角出发,利用Sketch Engine语料库工具,从COVID-19语料库中提取出364条新冠肺炎英语单词术语和176条多词术语,以期助力于新冠疫情的防控。从本次新冠肺炎专题词表的开发实践中,文章总结出以目的为导向的学术词表制作流程,并提出学术词表的后续研究方向,为应急语言服务中的术语支援提供参考。
关键词:应急语言服务;新冠肺炎;医学英语;术语表;语料库
中图分类号:H083;K826.2文献标识码:ADOI:10.3969/j.issn.1673-8578.2021.02.005
The Development of COVID-19 Word List from the Perspective of Emergency Language Services//LI Longxing,WANG Xian
Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic around the globe made us acutely aware of the importance of emergency language services in public health emergencies. Terminology support provided in the form of word list development and terminology management is an important way of emergency language services, which ensures accurate and smooth communication. In order to help prevent and control the pandemic from the perspective of emergency language services, 364 single-word terms and 176 multi-word terms of COVID-19 are extracted from the COVID-19 corpus using the corpus tool of Sketch Engine. From the practice of producing this word list, we summarize a procedure of academic word list development and point out future directions for academic word list making and research in the hope of providing reference for terminology support in emergency language services.
Keywords:emergency language services; COVID-19; English for Medical Purposes; word list; corpus
引言
2019年年底突發的新冠疫情让我们深感突发公共卫生事件中应急服务的重要性。抗疫期间,关于应急语言服务的实践和理论研究都大为增加,在教育部语信司的指导下,以国家语委科研机构为骨干的语言学界及相关行业火速推出《抗击疫情湖北方言通》和《疫情防控外语通》,为抗击疫情的医护人员及相关群体提供语言应急服务,该领域的研究内涵也大为丰富。比如疫情防控中的医患沟通、疾病命名、多语言信息发布、抗疫语言翻译服务、新闻宣传用语、谣言防控等[1]。王立非等梳理了应急语言服务的概念、研究现状与机制体制建设[2];滕延江从应急语言服务视角出发,明确了应急语言服务的学科属性,提出应急语言服务研究的十大研究课题与三个研究范式[3]。……
