Open AccessResearch and methodology in healthcare interpreting
Author(s) -
Franz Pöchhacker
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
linguistica antverpiensia new series - themes in translation studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2295-5739
DOI - 10.52034/lanstts.v5i.157
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , interpreter , health care , perspective (graphical) , discipline , focus (optics) , product (mathematics) , sociology , psychology , epistemology , management science , engineering ethics , computer science , political science , social science , engineering , artificial intelligence , mathematics , philosophy , physics , geometry , optics , law , programming language
This paper reviews the evolution and main strands of research on interpreting in health care, one of the most important domains of inter - preting in the community. The diverse body of literature generated since about the 1970s is first described with regard to different disciplinary perspectives and then surveyed in terms of thematic orientations, including a focus on the interpreting product, interpreter performance, communicative practices, and the provision of care. A number of examples are cited to illustrate both the breadth of content and the variety of methods used. The latter are then discussed from an overall perspective with regard to some broad methodological distinctions and choices.