Community interpreting as a socially and cognitively situated activity : speech action patterns and underlying knowledge structures in interpreter-mediated medical interactions

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela; Hohenstein, Christiane

doi:10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2

Publication type:	Book part
Type of review:	Peer review (publication)
Title:	Community interpreting as a socially and cognitively situated activity : speech action patterns and underlying knowledge structures in interpreter-mediated medical interactions
Authors:	Albl-Mikasa, Michaela Hohenstein, Christiane
et. al:	No
DOI:	10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2
Published in:	New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies
Editors of the parent work:	Lázaro Gutiérrez, Raquel Álvaro Aranda, Cristina
Page(s):	11
Pages to:	39
Issue Date:	2023
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Springer
Publisher / Ed. Institution:	Singapore
ISBN:	978-981-99-2960-3 978-981-99-2961-0
Language:	English
Subjects:	Community interpreting; Medical interpreting; Cognitively situated activity; (Speech) action pattern; Knowledge structure; Functional pragmatics; Heidelberg School of interpreting
Subject (DDC):	418.02: Translating and interpreting
Abstract:	Community and medical interpreting have been described as socially situated interactions. This paper introduces a situated cognition and functional-pragmatic perspective as part of efforts to (re)integrate the cognitive dimension. It highlights the significance of institutional, domain-specific and discourse-related knowledge on the part of interpreters and draws attention to the fact that interpreters enact institutional processes through shared (speech) action patterns realized by language-specific devices. Part one draws upon the Heidelberg School’s theoretical framework, a cognitive and pragmatic discourse model of interpreting, and updates it with insights on doctor-patient communication (DPC) from Functional Pragmatics (FP). Part two discusses first-order and second-order knowledge relating to discourse structures and speech action patterns in DPC. Shared knowledge of institutional speech action patterns is highlighted as facilitating cognitive processing in interpreter-mediated DPC (IDPC). Part three uses FP-based analysis to illustrate two aspects of IDPC where knowledge of both institutional processes and linguistic structures may determine interpreting success. This is in continuation of previous analyses of 19 video-recorded IDPCs from the Swiss Basel University Hospital/ZHAW corpus transcribed and analysed for sequences where knowledge of institutional processes and language-specific devices can be shown to play a role in interpreting. Conclusions are drawn for an integrative view of the interactive, social and cognitive dimensions of interpreting.
URI:	https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/29435
Fulltext version:	Published version
License (according to publishing contract):	Licence according to publishing contract
Departement:	Applied Linguistics
Organisational Unit:	Institute of Translation and Interpreting (IUED) Institute of Language Competence (ILC)
Appears in collections:	Publikationen Angewandte Linguistik

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Albl-Mikasa, M., & Hohenstein, C. (2023). Community interpreting as a socially and cognitively situated activity : speech action patterns and underlying knowledge structures in interpreter-mediated medical interactions. In R. Lázaro Gutiérrez & C. Álvaro Aranda (Eds.), New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies (pp. 11–39). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2

Albl-Mikasa, M. and Hohenstein, C. (2023) ‘Community interpreting as a socially and cognitively situated activity : speech action patterns and underlying knowledge structures in interpreter-mediated medical interactions’, in R. Lázaro Gutiérrez and C. Álvaro Aranda (eds) New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies. Singapore: Springer, pp. 11–39. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2.

M. Albl-Mikasa and C. Hohenstein, “Community interpreting as a socially and cognitively situated activity : speech action patterns and underlying knowledge structures in interpreter-mediated medical interactions,” in New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies, R. Lázaro Gutiérrez and C. Álvaro Aranda, Eds. Singapore: Springer, 2023, pp. 11–39. doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2.

ALBL-MIKASA, Michaela und Christiane HOHENSTEIN, 2023. Community interpreting as a socially and cognitively situated activity : speech action patterns and underlying knowledge structures in interpreter-mediated medical interactions. In: Raquel LÁZARO GUTIÉRREZ und Cristina ÁLVARO ARANDA (Hrsg.), New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies. Singapore: Springer. S. 11–39. ISBN 978-981-99-2960-3

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, and Christiane Hohenstein. 2023. “Community Interpreting as a Socially and Cognitively Situated Activity : Speech Action Patterns and Underlying Knowledge Structures in Interpreter-Mediated Medical Interactions.” In New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies, edited by Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez and Cristina Álvaro Aranda, 11–39. Singapore: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2.

Albl-Mikasa, Michaela, and Christiane Hohenstein. “Community Interpreting as a Socially and Cognitively Situated Activity : Speech Action Patterns and Underlying Knowledge Structures in Interpreter-Mediated Medical Interactions.” New Trends in Healthcare Interpreting Studies, edited by Raquel Lázaro Gutiérrez and Cristina Álvaro Aranda, Springer, 2023, pp. 11–39, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-2961-0_2.