The corpus “Interpreting in Hospitals”
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Kristin Bührig
Abstract
This paper explores the question how language corpora can enhance discourse analytic research as well as communication trainings. To do this, we refer to the language corpus “Interpreting in hospitals”, and begin by describing it in detail. Subsequently, the paper exemplifies how the corpus was used to analyse ad-hoc-interpreting in medical settings, focusing on the function of specific linguistic elements and speech actions (Bührig & Meyer 2004). Finally, the paper shows how research findings based on the corpus and data from the corpus can be used in communication trainings, describing a training for bilingual hospital employees. The corpus allows trainers to identify relevant training contents, and it offers the possibility to integrate sections of authentic discourse in the training. The paper illustrates how the training participants accepted and worked with the discourse data, and draws conclusions concerning the use of corpus based analyses in trainings on workplace communication.
Abstract
This paper explores the question how language corpora can enhance discourse analytic research as well as communication trainings. To do this, we refer to the language corpus “Interpreting in hospitals”, and begin by describing it in detail. Subsequently, the paper exemplifies how the corpus was used to analyse ad-hoc-interpreting in medical settings, focusing on the function of specific linguistic elements and speech actions (Bührig & Meyer 2004). Finally, the paper shows how research findings based on the corpus and data from the corpus can be used in communication trainings, describing a training for bilingual hospital employees. The corpus allows trainers to identify relevant training contents, and it offers the possibility to integrate sections of authentic discourse in the training. The paper illustrates how the training participants accepted and worked with the discourse data, and draws conclusions concerning the use of corpus based analyses in trainings on workplace communication.
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction xi
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Section 1. Learner and attrition corpora
- The LeaP corpus 3
- Technological and methodological challenges in creating, annotating and sharing a learner corpus of spoken German 25
- Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus 47
- The ALeSKo learner corpus 71
- Corpora of spoken Spanish by simultaneous and successive German-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children 97
- Monolingual and bilingual phonoprosodic corpora of child German and child Spanish 107
- Pragmatic corpus analysis, exemplified by Turkish-German bilingual and monolingual data 123
- Corpus of Polish spoken in Germany 153
- The HABLA-corpus (German-French and German-Italian) 163
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Section 2. Language contact corpora
- The Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa) 183
- Ad hoc contact phenomena or established features of a contact variety? 199
- Phonoprosodic corpus of spoken Catalan (PhonCAT) 215
- Researching the intelligibility of a (German) dialect 231
- Annotating ambiguity 245
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Section 3. Interpreting corpora
- Sharing community interpreting corpora 275
- CoSi – A Corpus of Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting 295
- The corpus “Interpreting in Hospitals” 305
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Section 4. Comparable and parallel corpora
- The GeWiss corpus 319
- Korpus C4 339
- Treebanks in translation studies 347
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Section 5. Corpus tools
- Multilingual phonological corpus analysis 365
- Finding the balance between strict defaults and total openness 383
- General index 401
- Corpora index 405
- Language index 407
Chapters in this book
- Prelim pages i
- Table of contents v
- Introduction xi
-
Section 1. Learner and attrition corpora
- The LeaP corpus 3
- Technological and methodological challenges in creating, annotating and sharing a learner corpus of spoken German 25
- Creation and analysis of a reading comprehension exercise corpus 47
- The ALeSKo learner corpus 71
- Corpora of spoken Spanish by simultaneous and successive German-Spanish bilingual and Spanish monolingual children 97
- Monolingual and bilingual phonoprosodic corpora of child German and child Spanish 107
- Pragmatic corpus analysis, exemplified by Turkish-German bilingual and monolingual data 123
- Corpus of Polish spoken in Germany 153
- The HABLA-corpus (German-French and German-Italian) 163
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Section 2. Language contact corpora
- The Hamburg Corpus of Argentinean Spanish (HaCASpa) 183
- Ad hoc contact phenomena or established features of a contact variety? 199
- Phonoprosodic corpus of spoken Catalan (PhonCAT) 215
- Researching the intelligibility of a (German) dialect 231
- Annotating ambiguity 245
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Section 3. Interpreting corpora
- Sharing community interpreting corpora 275
- CoSi – A Corpus of Consecutive and Simultaneous Interpreting 295
- The corpus “Interpreting in Hospitals” 305
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Section 4. Comparable and parallel corpora
- The GeWiss corpus 319
- Korpus C4 339
- Treebanks in translation studies 347
-
Section 5. Corpus tools
- Multilingual phonological corpus analysis 365
- Finding the balance between strict defaults and total openness 383
- General index 401
- Corpora index 405
- Language index 407
