In the last two decades, Dialogue Interpreting (DI) has been studied extensively through the
lenses of discourse analysis and conversation analysis. As a result, DI has been recognised …

Many studies (Heath 1984b, 1986; Robinson 1998; Robinson & Stivers 2001; Greatbach
2006; Frers 2009) have shown that, while interacting with their patients, doctors fulfill several …

The growing interest in studies based on samples of authentic interpreting data goes hand
in hand with the need to think of adequate methodologies to make such data available for …

This study focuses on interpreting in healthcare settings, taking into account a corpus of
medical encounters involving Italian doctors, Chinese patients and an Italian interpreter. In …

The professional status of interpreters is perhaps one of the most neglected topics in
Interpreting Studies today. A review of the existing literature reveals that very few studies …

This study explores how the positioning of dialogue interpreters is shaped in
mediatedinteraction through the combined investigation of two main units of analysis, ie …

In a recent book (Gambier and van Doorslaer 2009), almost all the contributors stressed and
complained about the lack of consistency in the metalanguage of translation, with different …

In multilingual work meetings, where the participants do not share the same languages,
local translation appears as a means used to achieve participants' task. In the case at hand …

The present paper sets out to explore ways in which affectivity surfaces and is dealt with in
interpreter-mediated doctor-patient talk. Section 1 briefly discusses previous work on doctor …

This chapter adopts a conversation analysis perspective towards assessments, in
encounters between West African migrants, representatives of institutions, and mediating …