Alexander Bischoff
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alexander Bischoff plays a role.
2017 Hsieh, 2016, Bilingual health communication: Working with interpreters in cross-cultural care Interpreting 19:2, pp. 299–304 | Review
2012 Staying in the middle: A qualitative study of health care interpreters’ perceptions of their work Interpreting 14:1, pp. 1–22 | Article
In this age of migration, many societies are characterized by linguistic and cultural diversity. Public institutions, such as health care systems, face the challenge of integrating new arrivals, immigrants, refugees or asylum seekers, into the host society. The purpose of this study was to examine… read more
2010 Pöchhacker, Franz & Miriam Shlesinger, eds. 2007. Healthcare Interpreting. Discourse and Interaction Target 22:2, pp. 377–380 | Review
2004 Interpreting in Swiss hospitals Interpreting 6:2, pp. 181–204 | Article
This paper presents the findings of cross-sectional national surveys on how Swiss hospitals address the problem of language barriers in health care and how they respond to the high number of allophone patients (i.e. patients who do not speak the local language). Half of the 244 hospital services… read more