COMUNICACIÓ, TERMINOLOGIA I SALUT

The evolution of knowledge in health, a challenge for communication and language

Barcelona, May 19, 2022

The research conference HEALTHCOM'22. Communication, terminology and health continues the tradition of the previous editions of 2017 and 2019 of holding an interdisciplinary scientific day, aimed at researchers and professionals in health and applied linguistics, especially specialists in specialized discourse and terminology.

This year the focus of the conference is The evolution of knowledge in health, a challenge for communication and language, since it is part of the activities derived from the TERMMED project (2018-2020), which was aimed at the diachronic analysis of terminology from segmented specialized corpora, as a fundamental strategy for the study of the evolution of scientific knowledge. In this line, we have invited as lecturers and speakers people whose work is well recognized within the history of science, medicine, nursing, analysis of communication in the field of health and terminology.

The conference is of interest to all professors, students and professionals working with language, communication and discourse in the health sciences.