Transferring Linguistic Know-how into Institutional Practice
Edited by Kristin Bührig and Bernd Meyer
[Hamburg Studies on Multilingualism, 15] 2013. vii, 151 pp.
Kristin Bührig
List of John Benjamins publications for which Kristin Bührig plays a role.
Titles
Subjects Applied linguistics | Multilingualism | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Beyond Misunderstanding: Linguistic analyses of intercultural communication
Edited by Kristin Bührig and Jan D. ten Thije
[Pragmatics & Beyond New Series, 144] 2006. vi, 339 pp.
Subjects Communication Studies | Discourse studies | Pragmatics | Sociolinguistics and Dialectology
Articles
2023 Chapter 15. On indicating and dealing with uncertainty in healthcare dialogues: Questions and findings for medical practice and teaching A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 359–372 | Chapter
In the context of diagnostic uncertainty moments of irritation can arise, which linguistically disguise uncertainty of the physicians or result in uncertainty on the patient’s side. We investigated the occurrence of uncertainty in history-taking encounters by reconstructing the dealing with… 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 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 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
2010 Multilingual business writing: The case of crisis communication Multilingualism at Work: From policies to practices in public, medical and business settings, Meyer, Bernd and Birgit Apfelbaum (eds.), pp. 253–272 | Article
In case of a crisis companies are recommended to follow a one-voice-policy in the communication with their stakeholders. The following chapter investigates how the one-voice-policy is performed in multilingual business writing. In doing so it will be shown which linguistic means are sensitive for… read more
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 „So, given this common theme...“: Linking constructions in discourse across languages Connectivity in Grammar and Discourse, Rehbein, Jochen, Christiane Hohenstein and Lukas Pietsch (eds.), pp. 345–365 | Article
In this paper we deal with “linking constructions”, a phenomenon in the field of “connectivity”1 that has to our knowledge rarely been examined in monolingual texts and discourses, let alone contrastively. We will first relate these devices to the general area of connectivity, then we will look… read more
2004 On the Multimodality of Interpreting in Medical Briefings for Informed Consent: Using Diagrams to Impart Knowledge Perspectives on Multimodality, Ventola, Eija, Cassily Charles and Martin Kaltenbacher (eds.), pp. 227–241 | Article
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
2004 Connectivity in translation: Transitions from orality to literacy Multilingual Communication, House, Juliane and Jochen Rehbein (eds.), pp. 87–114 | Article
2002 Interactional coherence in discussions and everyday storytelling: On considering the role of jedenfalls and auf jeden fall Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics meets conversational interaction, Fetzer, Anita and Christiane Meierkord (eds.), pp. 273–290 | Article