Segalowitz, N., & Kehayia, E. (2011). Exploring the determinants of Language Barriers in Health Care (LBHC): Toward a research agenda for the language sciences. The Canadian Modern Language Review/La Revue canadienne des langues vivantes, 67(4), 480-507.
摘要:There is growing interest in language barriers in health care (LBHC) -- interest, that is, in how the quality of health care service delivery might be compromised when patients and health care providers do not share the same first language. This article discusses LBHC as an emerging research area that provides valuable opportunities for researchers in various branches of the language sciences -- including, among others, applied linguistics, theoretical linguistics, psycholinguistics, second language acquisition -- to conduct basic research and to make contributions to the socially important area of medical communication. This article also proposes a research agenda aimed at attracting general language researchers to the study of LBHC, an agenda that is theory driven, programmatic, problem-solving oriented, and interdisciplinary in scope. In proposing this agenda, selected examples have been reviewed from the current literature that can serve as illustrative models for how future research into LBHC can proceed. Adapted from the source document
关键词:interpersonal behavior and communication, interpersonal and group communication, behavior, and relationships, theory of linguistics, linguistics pedagogy, philosophy, and theory, Official Languages, Health Care Practitioners, Communication Failure, Communicative Competence, Research Design, Second Language Learning, Applied Linguistics, Psycholinguistics, Theoretical Linguistics