Communicating in Professions and Organizations: Voices of Care

Penn, Claire; Watermeyer, Jennifer

This book offers a novel approach to understanding the complexities of communication in culturally and linguistically diverse health care contexts. It marks the culmination of two decades of research in South Africa, a context that has obvious application in a wider international climate given current globalization and migration trends. The authors draw from a large body of evidence based across different sites and illnesses, scrutinising both the language dynamics of intercultural health interactions and the perceptions and narratives of multiple participants. Including a range of theoretical, methodological and empirical considerations, the volume sheds light upon qualitative research methods and their application in the intercultural context. This book will be a valuable resource for health professionals, medical educators and language practitioners as well as students and scholars of discourse analysis and the medical humanities.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2018-01-18

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9781137580993

DOI: 10.1057/978-1-137-58100-6

Dimensions: 210cm x148cm

Pages: 368