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Rodríguez Vicente N, Napier J & de Pedro Ricoy R (2021) Dialogue interpreting and person-centred care in a clinical mental healthcare setting. In: Wang C & Zheng B (eds.) Empirical Studies in Translation and Interpreting: the Post-structuralist Approach. Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies. London: Routledge, pp. 29-48. https://www.routledge.com/Empirical-Studies-of-Translation-and-Interpreting-The-Post-Structuralist/Wang-Zheng/p/book/9780367856106
Abstract
This chapter examines the intersection between dialogue interpreting and the person-centred
care approach to healthcare delivery and communication. Among the different values of
person-centred care, this chapter focuses on the enactment of the following principles in
interpreter-mediated talk: respecting the patient’s autonomy, consideration of the patient’s
spirituality, and relational continuity. The excerpts discussed in this chapter were extracted
from audio-recordings of authentic consultations that took place in an outpatient mental
healthcare clinic in Scotland. Drawing on a qualitative analysis of the data, this chapter posits
that interpreters may consciously or non-consciously enable or hamper person-centred
communication through their performance. This chapter also illustrates how the way in which
interpreters influence person-centred communication largely depends on the alignment, or lack
thereof, that exists between the interactional goals of the primary speakers’ utterances and the
interpreters’ renditions. Finally, because interpreters make interpreting decisions based on their
understanding of the clinical, linguistic and interpersonal goals at play in the encounter, this
chapter suggests that interpreters’ awareness of the guiding values of person-centred care is
crucial to ensure that linguistically diverse patients fully benefit from such values.
Status | Published |
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Funders | Heriot-Watt University |
Title of series | Routledge Advances in Translation and Interpreting Studies |
Publication date | 31/12/2021 |
Publication date online | 31/05/2021 |
URL | http://hdl.handle.net/1893/32086 |
Publisher | Routledge |
Publisher URL | https://www.routledge.com/…ok/9780367856106 |
Place of publication | London |
ISBN | 9780367856106 |
eISBN | 9781003017400 |
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Professor Raquel de Pedro Ricoy
Professor Translation & Interpreting, Literature and Languages - Division