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Claudia V. Angelelli, Medical interpreting and cross-cultural communication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 May 2007

Bruce T. Downing
Bruce T. Downing
Affiliation:
Linguistics, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis MN 55455 USA, bdowning@umn.edu
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Claudia V. Angelelli, Medical interpreting and cross-cultural communication. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xiii, 153. Hb $75.00.

Claudia Angelelli's study of medical interpreting, based on her 2001 Stanford dissertation, constitutes a valuable addition to a series of empirical studies of community interpreting (Wadensjö 1992, 1998; Metzger 1999; Bolden 2000; Roy 2000) that make use of discourse analysis to uncover what actually takes place in interpreter-mediated encounters between professionals and their clients (or patients) who do not speak the same language. These studies share a common theme: to reveal the interpreter as an interactive participant in cross-cultural communication rather than a mere relayer of linguistic messages from one language to another. Adopting a primarily ethnographic approach, Angelelli sets out to refute the “myth of invisibility” (p. 2) by showing that medical interpreters are visible, interactive agents in interpreted communicative events.

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Language in Society , Volume 36 , Issue 3 , July 2007 , pp. 474 - 478
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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