31.2971, Confs: Pragmatics/Switzerland

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Date: Thu, 01 Oct 2020 11:31:17
From: Leona Van Vaerenbergh [leona.vanvaerenbergh at uantwerpen.be]
Subject: How can interpreting in mental health settings contribute to inclusion? Accuracy, neutrality, and flexibility as important professional standards

 
How can interpreting in mental health settings contribute to inclusion? Accuracy, neutrality, and flexibility as important professional standards 

Date: 27-Jun-2021 - 02-Jul-2021 
Location: Winterthur, Switzerland 
Contact: Leona Van Vaerenbergh 
Contact Email: leona.vanvaerenbergh at uantwerpen.be 
Meeting URL: https://pragmatics.international/page/Winterthur2021 

Linguistic Field(s): Pragmatics 

Meeting Description: 

Organisers: Leona Van Vaerenbergh (University of Antwerp), Betty Goguikian
Ratcliff (University of Geneva), Yvan Leanza (Université de Laval)

Within the framework of the conference topic “The pragmatics of inclusion”,
this panel aims to draw attention to the variety of settings within the area
of mental health care and to investigate how interpreting and interpreters can
contribute to the societal and psychomedical inclusion of patients with
linguistic and cultural barriers leading to a sense of discrimination and
exclusion.

Up to now little research has been conducted on interpreting specifically in
the area of mental health (see e.g. Blumenthal 2016: 22-23; Tribe & Raval
2002). Nevertheless, mental health care is a field in its own right with a
large variety of settings. This variety is created by the nature and severity
of the disorders, the type of consultations: diagnostic consultations by means
of diagnostic and psychometric tests, psychological assessment, counseling,
etc., and by the participants in the consultation: the specialism of the
health care provider (psychiatrist, psychologist, psychotherapist) and the age
of the patient (child, adolescent, adult, elderly people) (Leanza 2015).
Furthermore, the setting is determined by the institutional context: the
process of a consultation in the hospital may differ from that in a private
practice (Goguikian, Pereira & Fierro 2018).

For the interpreter, this variety involves a high degree of variability of
contexts, situations, and interactions, and a clear definition of role
frontiers with health care providers is needed. In order to contribute to
inclusion, a highly professional attitude of the interpreter is required.
Three important standards request particular attention and further research,
i.e. accuracy, neutrality, and flexibility. The required accuracy relates to
different levels: the linguistic interpretation, the cultural interpretation,
and last but not least the interpretation of nonverbal communication features
(e.g. Mudarikiri 2002: 185-186; Blumenthal 2016: 114 ff; Van Vaerenbergh 2020:
312-314). Neutrality is often misunderstood and confused with disengagement
and detachment (Goguikian Ratcliff, 2010). Therefore, different authors (René
de Cotret, Ošlejšková, Tamouro & Leanza 2017; Leanza 2017) suggest to use the
term ‘multipartiality’. Flexibility is an important standard when interpreting
is considered as a practice profession. Practice profession means that
“technical skills are always applied in a dynamic, interactive social context”
(Dean & Pollard 2011: 156). Flexibility is the competence of the interpreter
to tailor his/her strategy in a professional way to varying contexts.
The aim of this panel is to discuss results of different research approaches,
i.e. theoretical studies, survey studies and field research and to represent
different disciplines with their own approach to accuracy, neutrality, and
flexibility, but also to the role, the possibilities and difficulties of
interpreting in the area of mental health care.
 

Call for Papers: 

We invite researchers of different disciplines to submit paper propositions on
topics such as:
- Professionalism of the interpreter and ethics
- Interpreting and transcultural mental health
- Interpreting and lingua franca in mental health settings
- Interpreting nonverbal communication in mental health care
- Consecutive and simultaneous interpreting in mental health settings
- Interpreting in the context of diagnostic and psychometric testing 
- The role of the institutional context
- Training of interpreters for mental health settings

Prior to submitting your abstract on the conference website
(https://ipra2021.exordo.com/login), you need to email it to the panel
organiser (Leona.vanvaerenbergh at uantwerpen.be) for pre-approval. Deadline: 18
October. Notification of approval: 22 October.





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