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Abstract
This article discusses insights from a research on the management of emotions in medical interactions involving Italian healthcare providers, Arabic speaking interpreters and Arabic speaking patients. The findings suggest that the possibility for patient’s emotions to become relevant in the medical encounter is affected by the activity of interpreters as mediators of the inter-linguistic interaction. While this contribution also considers examples of interpreters’ choices excluding the emotions of the patients from the interaction, the discussion focuses on affective formulations of patient’s expression of emotions, as an interactional resource to involve doctors in an affective framework previously developed within dyadic monolingual interactions.
This article concludes by suggesting that interpreters as linguistic mediators may effectively promote emotional literacy in healthcare interactions, promoting a patient-centred model of multilingual healthcare.
This article concludes by suggesting that interpreters as linguistic mediators may effectively promote emotional literacy in healthcare interactions, promoting a patient-centred model of multilingual healthcare.
Original language | English |
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Journal | Language and Health |
Publication status | Published - 24 Feb 2024 |
Bibliographical note
The Article Publishing Charge is covered by Shandong University for articles accepted by 31st December 2025Keywords
- interpreting
- women health
- migrant patients
- Italy
- Healthcare workers
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Plurilingual communication in healthcare. Interlinguistic and intercultural mediation
Federico Farini (Author)
28 Jun 2023Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Conference Presentation
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Federico Farini (Member)
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Assuring access to essential public services: Training issues in interpreter-mediated interaction
Federico Farini (Organiser), Veronique Traverso (Participant), Galina Bolden (Participant), Graham Turner (Participant), Caecilia Wadensjoe (Participant) & Franz Pochhacker (Participant)
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Managing repair in triadic interactions
Federico Farini (Speaker) & Letizia Cirillo (Speaker)
Nov 2013Activity: Academic Talks or Presentations › Oral presentation › Research
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