Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-168) and index.
Contents:
Communicating with Latino/as in health care: language barriers and transcultural competence -- Psychiatric interviews as a genre and patients' narratives -- Hacer platica: small talk subgenres -- Register of the psychiatric interview: interlocutors, power, and solidarity -- Translanguaging in health care interactions -- Expressing verbal modality and other politeness strategies in psychiatric interviews -- Conclusions: Spanish and transcultural discourse in health, teaching, and research.
Summary:
"Draws on systemic functional linguistics discourse analysis to analyze how Latino/a patients narrate their experiences in psychiatric intake interviews and explores the importance of transcultural competency in health care"-- Provided by publisher.
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