FicMed - Vocabulário do drama médico na Tv: um estudo baseado em corpus

Abstract

This dissertation examines the constitution, organization and diachronic variation of the medical-fictional vocabulary found in English-language television medical dramas produced between the 1980s and the 2020s, based on the FicMed corpus and the terminographic platform VoTec. Grounded in the Communicative Theory of Terminology (CTT) and Corpus Linguistics, the study analyzes how medical terminology is appropriated and recontextualized within fictional narratives, highlighting the relationship between language, science and culture. The findings indicate that the medical-fictional lexicon is structured around a relatively stable core of terms, such as Aids, Blood Pressure, CT Scan, Leukemia and Lupus, alongside a set of emerging terms that reflect scientific, social and discursive transformations across decades. The diachronic analysis reveals semantic-discursive shifts and demonstrates how medical discourse is translated into the popular imagination, contributing to the social circulation and humanization of specialized language. It is argued that medical television series operate as mediators of scientific knowledge by transforming technical terminology into narrative and symbolic elements. The study expands the field of Terminology by situating specialized language at the intersection of discourse, culture and narrative, while also proposing a methodological model for the terminographic analysis of multimodal corpora.