36.3034, Calls: European Journal of Applied Linguistics - "Special Issue: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Interaction in a Triadic Setting" (Jrnl)

[The LINGUIST List]

LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3034. Wed Oct 08 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.3034, Calls: European Journal of Applied Linguistics - "Special Issue: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Interaction in a Triadic Setting" (Jrnl)

Moderator: Steven Moran (linguist at linguistlist.org)
Managing Editor: Valeriia Vyshnevetska
Team: Helen Aristar-Dry, Mara Baccaro, Daniel Swanson
Jobs: jobs at linguistlist.org | Conferences: callconf at linguistlist.org | Pubs: pubs at linguistlist.org

Homepage: http://linguistlist.org

Editor for this issue: Valeriia Vyshnevetska <valeriia at linguistlist.org>

================================================================


Date: 08-Oct-2025
From: Claudio Scarvaglieri [claudio.scarvaglieri at unil.ch]
Subject: European Journal of Applied LInguistics - "Special Issue: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Interaction in a Triadic Setting" (Jrnl)


Journal: European Journal of Applied LInguistics
Issue: Interpreter-mediated Psychotherapy: Dimensions of Interaction
in a Triadic Setting
Call Deadline: 10-Nov-2025

Guest Editors: Claudio Scarvaglieri (Lausanne University), Anna
Wamprechtshammer (University of Hamburg), Peter Muntigl (Ghent
University)
Description:
The growing linguistic and cultural diversity in Europe has brought
interpreter-mediated psychotherapy (IMP) to the forefront of clinical
practice. Interpreters play a crucial role in enabling communication
between therapists and patients who do not share a common language – a
practice that is gaining in societal relevance but remains
under-investigated from a scientific standpoint. Because the presence
of an interpreter transforms the traditional therapist-patient dyad
into a triadic conversational framework, there are considerable
implications for how therapeutic relationships are formed, maintained,
and negotiated and for the process and outcome of therapy.
This special issue of the European Journal of Applied Linguistics aims
to deepen our understanding of the communicative, linguistic, and
relational dynamics in IMP. We invite contributions that explore how
language, discourse, and interaction shape therapeutic processes and
outcomes in multilingual settings.
We particularly welcome submissions that investigate the
co-construction and (interactional) accomplishment of the therapeutic
relationship, trust, empathy, communicative ruptures and repairs, and
the role of interpreters as relational, cultural and linguistic
brokers of interaction in therapy. Comparative studies with
monolingual psychotherapeutic interactions are also possible, if they
include data from IMP.
Possible Topics:
Submissions may address (but are not limited to) the following themes:
 - Linguistic and discursive dimensions of IMP
 - Trust, empathy, and alliance in IMP
 - Communicative ruptures and repair mechanisms in IMP
 - The interpreter’s role as a co-constructor of the therapeutic
relationship
 - Ethical and practical implications of interpreter involvement in
therapy
 - Comparative studies between monolingual and interpreter-mediated
sessions
 - In-person vs. online IMP
We encourage empirical, data-based studies drawing on fields such as
conversation analysis, discourse analysis, translation/interpreting
studies, psychotherapy research, or applied linguistics.
Submission Guidelines:
 - Abstract submission deadline: 10th November 2025
 - Full paper submission deadline: 31st March 2026
 - Expected publication: January 2027
Each submission will undergo double-blind peer review.
Contact:
For inquiries about the special issue, please contact:
Claudio Scarvaglieri, Lausanne University,
claudio.scarvaglieri at unil.ch
Anna Wamprechtshammer, University of Hamburg,
anna.wamprechtshammer at uni-hamburg.de
Peter Muntigl, Ghent University,  Peter.muntigl at ugent.be
Background:
This special issue builds upon recent collaborative research,
including the project “Interpreting in Psychotherapy: Process and
Outcome, Interaction and Perception”, and follows ongoing discussions
presented at COMET 2025. It aims to foster dialogue among linguists,
translation scholars, and psychologists to better understand and
enhance interpreter-mediated therapeutic practice.

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis
                     Translation




------------------------------------------------------------------------------

********************** LINGUIST List Support ***********************
Please consider donating to the Linguist List, a U.S. 501(c)(3) not for profit organization:

https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=87C2AXTVC4PP8

LINGUIST List is supported by the following publishers:

Bloomsbury Publishing http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/

Cambridge University Press http://www.cambridge.org/linguistics

Cascadilla Press http://www.cascadilla.com/

De Gruyter Brill https://www.degruyterbrill.com/?changeLang=en

Edinburgh University Press http://www.edinburghuniversitypress.com

John Benjamins http://www.benjamins.com/

Language Science Press http://langsci-press.org

MIT Press http://mitpress.mit.edu/

Multilingual Matters http://www.multilingual-matters.com/

Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG http://www.narr.de/

Netherlands Graduate School of Linguistics / Landelijke (LOT) http://www.lotpublications.nl/

Peter Lang AG http://www.peterlang.com


----------------------------------------------------------
LINGUIST List: Vol-36-3034
----------------------------------------------------------