Polskojęzyczne opisy przypadku z zakresu psychiatrii i psychologii – model tekstowy czy wyjątek? Część II

The aim of this series of articles is to identify and characterize the main linguistic and structural features of medical case reports in the field of psychiatry and psychology. The series is divided into to two parts: theoretical and empirical. The main purpose of the first part is to present the theoretical background of the discourse of psychiatry and psychology, including the characteristics of case reports of these disciplines and instructions for authors for preparing this type of text, as well as the narrative approach, case conceptualization etc. The second part is an empirical one. The main research question is whether the case reports of psychiatry and psychology are typical representatives of the microgenre or whether they are different with respect to particular levels of the texts. The present authors focus on the structure of case reports and their rhetorical character – the way of presenting particular information and its linguistic representation. The psychiatric and psychological case reports will be compared with the case reports from clinical and surgical disciplines, for instance cardiology or otorhinolaryngology. The study presents both differences and similarities between the two types of case reports, which are illustrated with representative examples from the research material.