Multilingual Healthcare A Global View on Communicative Challenges
This volume is the first to address multilingual healthcare communication around the globe and focuses on institutional, social and linguistic challenges and resources of the healthcare industry. It comprises studies from Canada, Australia, South Africa,
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Christiane Hohenstein Magdalène Lévy-Tödter Editors
Multilingual Healthcare A Global View on Communicative Challenges
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Christiane Hohenstein · Magdalène Lévy-Tödter Editors
Multilingual Healthcare A Global View on Communicative Challenges
Editors Christiane Hohenstein LCC – Department Angewandte Linguistik ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften Winterthur, Switzerland
Magdalène Lévy-Tödter FOM Hochschule für Oekonomie & Management Hamburg, Germany
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Preface
In July 2017, the 15th International Pragmatics Association IPrA Conference has been held in Belfast (Northern Ireland). The conference included our panel on “Increasing mobility in healthcare and challenges to multilingual healthcare communication”. The inspiring presentations and discussion showed the diversity of cultural and disciplinary approaches in the analysis of this specific institutional context. It is in the wake of this discussion that the idea of a cross-disciplinary anthology on multilingualism in healthcare was developed. The contributions
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