Cover -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Literature review -- 2.1. Language contact -- 2.1.1. History of contact linguistics -- 2.1.2. Terminology of contact-induced language change -- 2.1.3. Code-switching -- 2.1.4. Borrowing -- 2.1.5. English contact-induced language change(Englishization) -- 2.2. Globalization -- 2.2.1. Language globalization -- 2.2.2. English as an international lingua franca -- 2.2.3. The English language in Europe -- 2.2.4. The English language in Hungary -- 2.3. The language of medicine -- 2.3.1. English as a lingua franca of medicine -- 2.3.2. The English language in Medical Hungarian -- 2.3.3. International scientific vocabulary -- 2.4. Genres in Medicine -- 2.4.1. Physician-patient communication -- 2.4.2. The hospital discharge report -- 2.5. Patients' rights -- 2.6. Cardiology -- 2.7. Overview of methodology -- 2.7.1. Attitude studies -- 2.7.2. Semi-structured interviews -- 3. Research questions -- 3.1. The guiding research question and its explication -- 4. Methodology -- 4.1. Method 1: Research of hospital dischargereports -- 4.1.1. Data collection -- 4.1.2. Reliability of data -- 4.1.3. Validity of data -- 4.1.4. Data analysis: categorization -- 4.1.5. Ethical issues -- 4.2. Method 2: Research of language attitude -- 4.2.1. Subjects -- 4.2.2. Interviews -- 4.2.3. Data evaluation -- 4.2.4. Validity of interview data -- 4.2.5. Ethical issues -- 4.3. Complex evaluation of data collected by Methods 1 and 2 -- 4.4. Delimitations and limitations of the study -- 5. Results and discussion -- 5.1. Results and discussion of data obtained by Method 1 -- 5.1. 1. Contact-induced changes in orthography -- 5.1.1.1. Re-Englishization of spelling -- 5.1.1.1.1. Re-Englishization of the names of chemical elements and compounds -- 5.1.1.2.1. The abbreviation of liter -- 5.1.1.2. Punctuation.

5.1.1.2.1. The decimal separator -- 5.1.1.2.2. Quotation marks -- 5.1.1.3. Discussion on the change of orthographic features -- 5.1.2. Contact-induced changes in the lexicon -- 5.1.2.1. Loanwords proper -- 5.1.2.1.1. Noun loanwords proper -- 5.1.2.1.2. Adjective loanwords proper -- 5.1.2.2. Assimilated loanwords -- 5.1.2.2.1. Assimilated noun loanwords -- 5.1.2.2.2. Assimilated adjective loanwords -- 5.1.2.2.3. Assimilated verb loanwords -- 5.1.2.3. Eponyms and trade names -- 5.1.2.4. Acronyms and abbreviations -- 5.1.2.5. Discussion on lexical changes -- 5.1.3. Semantic borrowings -- 5.1.3.1. Loan translations -- 5.1.3.2. Loanblends -- 5.1.3.3. Loan creations -- 5.1.3.4. Loan meaning -- 5.1.3.5. Discussion on semantic borrowings -- 5.1.4. Borrowing of grammatical and syntactic features -- 5.1.4.1. Articles -- 5.1.4.1.1. The indefinite article -- 5.1.4.1.2. Omission of the definite article -- 5.1.4.2. Impersonalizing -- 5.1.4.3. Tenses -- 5.1.4.4. Apposition -- 5.1.4.5. Plural -- 5.1.4.6. Discussion on grammatical and syntactic borrowing -- 5.1.5. Other features -- 5.1.5.1. Politeness strategies -- 5.1.5.2. Depersonalization -- 5.1.5.3. Data organization and conventionalization -- 5.1.5.4. New occupation with new name -- 5.1.6. Conclusions on the results obtained with Method 1 -- 5.2. Results and discussion of data obtained by Method 2 -- 5.2.4. Results of the interviews with primary carephysicians -- 5.2.5. Results of the interviews with patients -- 5.2.6. Discussion and conclusions on the results obtained with Method 2 -- 5.2.3. Results of the interviews with secondary and tertiarycare cardiologists -- 5.2.3.1. Accessing professional information and acquiring medical knowledge -- 5.2.3.2. Publications -- 5.2.3.3. Conference presentations -- 5.2.3.4. Professional daily life -- 5.2.3.5. The importance of English language competence.

5.2.3.6. The language of Hungarian discharge reports -- 5.2.3.7. Attitudes to the use of English -- 5.2.1. Demographic data of the interviewees -- 5.2.2. Background information on the role of the Englishlanguage at the Faculty of Medicine -- 5.3. Complex evaluation of data collected with Methods 1 and 2 -- 6. Implications and suggestions for furtherresearch -- 7. Bibliography -- 8. Appendices.