The ready availability of machine translation (MT) systems such as Google Translate has
profoundly changed how society engages with multilingual communication practices. In …

Objective To conduct a scoping literature review to understand the conceptualization and
nature of the research on patient–provider language concordance (LC) in health care …

This bestselling textbook, now fully updated, introduces students, researchers and
practitioners to the fast-developing discipline of Interpreting Studies. Written by one of the …

This article compares the professional profile of community interpreters to that of a particular
group of intercultural mediators who work as non-professional, untrained interpreters, mainly …

Rethinking Culture in Health Communication An interdisciplinary overview of health
communication using a cultural lens—uniquely focused on social interactions in health …

According to recent Census data, the Hispanic or Latino population represents nearly 1 in 5
Americans today, where 71.1% of these individuals speak Spanish at home. Despite …

Telehealth has been widely adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, and this article
examines challenges faced by telephone interpreters in working with healthcare providers in …

Background Language barriers (LB) are common in patient care. They can negatively
impact the quality of care, and increase costs. LB can be overcome by using interpreters …

Stress is assumed to be intrinsic to interpreting and the ability to manage it a presumed
predictor of performance. And yet, empirical research on the role of stress in interpreting has …

In response to calls in the literature for more collaborative practice in interpreter training, this
paper describes the design, implementation and part of the evaluation of an innovative joint …