"This book engages - conceptually and empirically - with the
ongoing debate concerning the 'influence' occasioned by the
participation of an interpreter - whether professionally trained or
as a lay family member - in healthcare delivery. Healthcare
delivery, especially in the primary care sector, is increasingly
becoming multicultural and multilingual in character. This global
reality manifests itself as a communicative challenge in
interpreter-mediated healthcare consultations, involving
professional as well as family members in the role of interpreters.
In the context of this book (previously published as a special
issue of Communication & Medicine), interpreter-mediated
healthcare consultations are seen simultaneously as multilingual
and multiparty interactions, as well as being dyadic and triadic
communication. The introductory editorial sets the scene by
foregrounding the core notion of 'communicative vulnerability' of
all participants - the care recipient, the healthcare provider and
the interpreter - in relation to the emergent interactional
subtleties at the spheres of participation and interaction. In
addition to the 'brought along' communicative vulnerability of the
participants, the interactional trajectory itself, iteratively,
contributes to such vulnerability at the contingent level.
Especially, the interpreter routinely shifts between 'just being a
linguistic/literal medium/conduit' to 'being a communicative
mediator/broker', potentially influencing the processes and
outcomes of a given healthcare encounter. The contributors to the
volume, representing different parts of the world (Australia,
Italy, The Netherlands, Sweden, UK and USA), address, in different
ways, the complexities surrounding the concepts of 'participation',
'mediation' and 'shifts in roles/frames/footings' and their
interactional manifestation/consequence. As the empirical studies
illustrate, the interpreters - professional or otherwise - position
themselves actively in the interaction as their roles and
participation formats become situationally and culturally embedded,
albeit in varying degrees in different phases of the consultation.
The contributions engage along a variety of axes as far as the data
settings are concerned - professional vs lay interpreters, primary
vs. tertiary healthcare setting and low-stake vs. high-stake
encounters. The issues raised in the book - albeit dealing mainly
within the confines of the western healthcare landscape - point in
the direction of how 'communicative vulnerability' may be
heightened in relation to the currently dominant paradigms of
patient-centredness, patient autonomy and shared decision making."
General
Imprint: |
Equinox Publishing Ltd
|
Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
Release date: |
April 2023 |
First published: |
June 2014 |
Editors: |
Srikant Sarangi
|
Dimensions: |
234 x 155mm (L x W) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards
|
Pages: |
288 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-84553-902-3 |
Categories: |
Books
|
LSN: |
1-84553-902-8 |
Barcode: |
9781845539023 |
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