Madzhaeva S.I., Dzhelalova L.A., Romanova N.A. Speech Features of Clinical Guidelines for Paramedics, Medical Assistants, Ambulance Service, Air and Disaster Medicine Staff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2026.1.10
Sanya I. Madzhaeva
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Astrakhan State Medical University of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation, Astrakhan, Russia
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Larisa A. Dzhelalova
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Department of Humanities and Socio-Economic Disciplines, Volga Cossack Institute of Management and Food Technologies (branch) of the K.G. Razumovsky Moscow State University of Technology and Management (First Cossack University), Dimitrovgrad, Russia
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Nataliya A. Romanova
Candidate of Sciences (Philology), Associate Professor, Department of Russian Philology and journalism, Volgograd State University, Volgograd, Russia
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Abstract. 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.
Key words: clinical recommendations, clinical guidelines, guideline, speech features of the text, lexis, morphology, syntax, text composition.
Citation. Madzhaeva S.I., Dzhelalova L.A., Romanova N.A. Speech Features of Clinical Guidelines for Paramedics, Medical Assistants, Ambulance Service, Air and Disaster Medicine Staff. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2026, vol. 25, no. 1, pp. 136-156. (in Russian). DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2026.1.10
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