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Unity in diversity: mapping healthcare interpreting studies (2007-2017).
- Source :
- Medical Education Online; Dec2019, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p1-5, 5p
- Publication Year :
- 2019
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Abstract
- This paper intends to examine the evolution of healthcare interpreting studies published in SSCI and A&HCI journals between 2007 and 2017. A total of 40 journal articles have been selected from 23 SSCI or A&HCI journals, covering journals on translation and interpreting, linguistics and communication as well as healthcare studies. Thematically, articles selected fall in such four major types as socio-political background, healthcare interpreting practice, and education and training. Methodologically, based on an existing framework of classification, articles selected are grouped into four categories, namely, pure empirical research, pro-empirical research, pro-non-empirical research, and pure non-empirical research. Built on such a characterization of past studies on healthcare interpreting, this paper serves as a general map of relevant studies of this sub-field in the past decade and attempts to provide recommendations on research directions in the future. Such directions include the integration and alignment between the T & I community and the healthcare research community in the study of healthcare interpreting, the development of inter-disciplinary perspectives on the socio-political background of healthcare interpreting, and the expansion of research that is specialty-based, informed and driven. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SCIENTIFIC community
CONCORD
EMPIRICAL research
PERIODICAL articles
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10872981
- Volume :
- 24
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Medical Education Online
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 139429281
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/10872981.2019.1579559