Communicating Across Cultures and Languages in the Health Care Setting Voices of Care /

• Main Authors: Penn, Claire (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Watermeyer, Jennifer (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Communicating in Professions and Organizations
• Subjects: Discourse analysis.; Sociolinguistics.; Social medicine.; Communication.; Premedical education.; Intercultural communication.; Discourse Analysis.; Medical Sociology.; Communication Studies.; Premedical Education.; Intercultural Communication.

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 curre...