Genre Analysis of Medicine Information Leaflets

This study identifies generic features in medicine information leaflets and reveals insights in to how they successfully acheive their communicative tasks. It includes a comparative analysis beteen an Italian medicine information leaflet and and a comparative English leaflet, revealing how culturally both the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industries use distinctive discursive strategies when producing leaflets. It includes a brief summary of considerations in defining genre analysis is followed by detailed discussion of the corpus, methodology, pattern analysis, and conclusions .