Cristina Álvaro Aranda
List of John Benjamins publications in which Cristina Álvaro Aranda is involved.
Articles
2024 Transcending medical consultations: Entering the in-between zone to study the role of healthcare interpreters Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 37:2, pp. 682–719 | Article
The role of healthcare interpreters has attracted much interest over the years, with particular emphasis on the distance between an invisible, uninvolved prescribed behaviour that contrasts with the interpreters’ behaviour in practice as active participants. However, much of the existing… read more
2023 Functions and transmission of humour in interpreter-mediated healthcare consultations: An exploratory study Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics 36:1, pp. 87–119 | Article
This paper presents an exploratory study of humour in multilingual, multicultural healthcare interactions with an interpreter. Data are part of a dataset of healthcare encounters observed in a hospital in Madrid (Spain) for a period of five months, which included the participation of six… read more