Linguistics-Based Review of Medical English Functional Translation in Chinese Medical Universities

This review article aims to have a brief linguistic point of view of medical English functional translation in medical English studies in Chinese medical universities. What is little known is that medical English translation has its distinctive stylistic framework in the field of medical English studies. It shows a high degree of unity in terms of both medical English vocabularies and medical English text structures. At the same time, in the field of language studies, language translation and language application based on functional linguistics coincide with each other, which has been more and more concerned with and applied to the related field of language translation studies. A brief linguistics-based review on medical English functional translation will directly help medical English language educators and researchers to observe the linguistic features and laws of medical English translation at different levelssuchas words,sentences, and discourses. Furthermore, it will form ultimate feedback on medical English translation classroom teaching in particular Chinese medical universities and even on course evaluation in different subject areas of medical English studies.