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Publication details [#60106]

Poel, Kris Van De, Jessica Gasiorek and Inge Blockmans. 2015. What do you do when you can't accommodate? Managing and evaluating problematic interactions in a multilingual medical environment. Language & Communication 41 : 84–88.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

accommodation theory | hospital | medical conversation | multilingualism | social cooperation

Place, Publisher

Elsevier

Journal WWW

www.sciencedirect.com/

Annotation

Clinicians in multilingual hospital settings may be faced with language barriers making conventional verbal interactional accommodation impossible. Alternatives troubleshooting practices point to the significance of social connection.