Healthcare interpreting : discourse and interaction

Healthcare interpreting : discourse and interaction / edited by Franz Pöchhacker, Miriam Shlesinger.

This volume - the first-ever collection of research on healthcare interpreting - centers on three interrelated themes: cross-cultural communication in healthcare settings, the interactional role of persons serving as interpreters and the discourse patterns of interpreter-mediated interaction. The in...

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Other Authors: Pöchhacker, Franz, Shlesinger, Miriam, 1947-2012
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : J. Benjamins, ©2007.
Series:Benjamins current topics ; v. 9.
Subjects:
Medicine > Translating.
Health facilities > Translating services.
Physician and patient.
Medical personnel and patient.
Translating and interpreting.
translation (function)
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Translating and interpreting
Medical personnel and patient
Health facilities > Translating services
Medicine > Translating
Physician and patient
Translation & interpretation.
Languages.
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Table of Contents:
  • Roles of community interpreters in pediatrics as seen by interpreters, physicians and researchers / Yvan Leanza
  • Doctor-patient consultations in dyadic and triadic exchanges / Carmen Valero Garcés
  • Exploring untrained interpreters' use of direct versus indirect speech / Friedel Dubslaff and Bodil Martinsen
  • Dialogue interpreting as a specific case of reported speech / Hanneke Bot
  • Examining the "voice of interpreting" in speech pathology / Raffaela Merlini and Roberta Favaron
  • Book reviews.

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