Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice
Edited by Kristin Bührig and Bernd Meyer
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp.
Bernd Meyer
List of John Benjamins publications for which Bernd Meyer plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Applied linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings
Edited by Bernd Meyer and Birgit Apfelbaum
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 9] 2010. viii, 274 pp.
Subjects Discourse studies | Multilingualism | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2024 Coordination in telephone-based remote interpreting Interpreting 26:1, pp. 80–113 | Article
Telephone-based remote interpreting has come into widespread use in multilingual encounters, all the more so in times of refugee crises and the large influx of asylum-seekers into Europe. Nevertheless, the linguistic practices in this mode of communication have not yet been examined… read more
2013 Introduction Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice, Bührig, Kristin and Bernd Meyer (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Article
2013 Transfer is not a one-way street: Insights on Ad-hoc interpreting in German hospitals Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice, Bührig, Kristin and Bernd Meyer (eds.), pp. 137–150 | Article
The transfer of linguistic findings into institutional practice sometimes appears to be a one-way street in which language experts provide solutions for communication problems but, in return, don’t receive insight from the institutions they work with. To emphasize the potential value of applied… read more
2012 Sharing community interpreting corpora: A pilot study Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 275–294 | Article
This article presents results of a project which looks into new ways of publishing and sharing community interpreting corpora. Section 2 introduces CoPilot, a pilot database containing material from two corpora of interpreted doctor-patient communications and one corpus of interpreted court… read more
2012 The corpus “Interpreting in Hospitals”: Possible applications for research and communication training Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 305–315 | Article
This paper explores the question how language corpora can enhance discourse analytic research as well as communication trainings. To do this, we refer to the language corpus “Interpreting in hospitals”, and begin by describing it in detail. Subsequently, the paper exemplifies how the corpus was… read more
2012 Explaining the interpreter’s unease: Conflicts and contradictions in bilingual communication in clinical settings Multilingual Individuals and Multilingual Societies, Braunmüller, Kurt and Christoph Gabriel (eds.), pp. 407–418 | Article
This article builds on previous research on ad-hoc interpreting in German hospitals. It discusses the concept of interpreters as “intervenient beings” and its consequences for interpreter training. Although the concept seems to be descriptively adequate, it disregards difficulties of interpreters… read more
2012 CoSi – A Corpus of Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting Multilingual Corpora and Multilingual Corpus Analysis, Schmidt, Thomas and Kai Wörner (eds.), pp. 295–304 | Article
This paper describes how to access and use a corpus of comparable consecutive and simultaneous interpreting (Brazilian Portuguese and German). The corpus is available free of charge. Our aim is to stimulate discussions on the use and the accessibility of corpora in interpreting studies, and, more… read more
2012 4. Ad hoc interpreting for partially language-proficient patients: Participation in multilingual constellations Coordinating Participation in Dialogue Interpreting, Baraldi, Claudio and Laura Gavioli (eds.), pp. 99–114 | Article
The article discusses the notion of ‘language barrier’ regarding communication with patients with a migration background. These patients usually show some level of proficiency in the official language of the hospital. However, their proficiency is usually limited so that they still need… read more
2010 Multilingualism at work: A brief introduction Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 1–10 | Article
2010 Nurses as interpreters? Aspects of interpreter training for bilingual medical employees Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 163–184 | Article
This article examines the challenges of societal multilingualism and language barriers for communication in the context of medical services in Germany. Although there is evidence that ad-hoc-interpreting may cause communication problems, bilingual employees are often engaged in communication… read more
2007 Between connectivity and modality: Reported speech in interpreter-mediated doctor-patient communication Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 395–417 | Chapter
This paper analyzes data from doctor-patient interaction mediated by nonprofessional ad hoc-interpreters with a focus on the performance of ad hocinterpreters and their use of verba dicendi (“to say”, “to tell”, “to mean to say”). Our analysis of the Turkish and Portuguese language data shows that… read more
2004 Ad-hoc-interpreting and the achievement of communicative purposes in doctor-patient-communication Multilingual Communication, House, Juliane and Jochen Rehbein (eds.), pp. 43–62 | Article
2003 Analysing Interpreted Doctor–Patient Communication from the Perspectives of Linguistics, Interpreting Studies and Health Sciences The Critical Link 3: Interpreters in the Community, Brunette, Louise, Georges L. Bastin, Isabelle Hemlin and Heather Clarke (eds.), pp. 67–79 | Article
2002 Medical interpreting: Some salient features Interpreting in the 21st Century: Challenges and opportunities, Garzone, Giuliana and Maurizio Viezzi (eds.), pp. 159–169 | Article
2000 The Computer-Based Transcription of Simultaneous Interpreting Language Processing and Simultaneous Interpreting: Interdisciplinary perspectives, Englund Dimitrova, Birgitta and Kenneth Hyltenstam (eds.), pp. 151 ff. | Article
1998 What transcriptions of authentic discourse can reveal about interpreting Interpreting 3:1, pp. 65–83 | Article
This paper will outline how the theoretical and methodological framework of Functional Pragmatics can be applied to interpreting research. The aim is to show that mental dimensions of the interpreting process can be reconstructed from transcriptions of interpreted discourse. The scope of such an… read more