Christiane Hohenstein

Antonie Hornung

Institutionen - von der Schule über Behörden und Organisationen bis hin zur Gesundheitsversorgung - stellen gesellschaftliche Apparate dar, die ein Potenzial haben, mehrsprachige Praxen zu implementieren oder aber monolinguale Praxen zu verstetigen. Seit den späten 1970er-Jahren untersucht die funktional-pragmatische Sprach- und Kommunikationsanalyse, kurz Funktionale Pragmatik (FP), das sprachliche Handeln in mehrsprachigen Gesellschaften und ihren Institutionen. Von Konrad Ehlich und Jochen Rehbein als integrale Handlungstheorie von Sprache entwickelt, haben sich funktional-pragmatische Fragestellungen und Analysen vielfältig und über Sprachgrenzen hinweg entfaltet. Die Beiträge diese Sammelbands führen von der grundlegenden theoretischen Auseinandersetzung mit Institution und Sprachgebrauch zu diversen Fallstudien und Untersuchungen, die sich auf der Grundlage funktional-pragmatischer Erkenntnisse mit Sprache und Mehrsprachigkeit in unterschiedlichen gesellschaftlichen und institutionellen Zusammenhängen befassen und die Bedeutung der FP im Kontext anderer theoretischer Konzepte ausloten.

Sprache und Sprachen in Institutionen und mehrsprachigen Gesellschaften

Magdalène Lévy-Tödter

This volume is the first to address multilingual healthcare communication around the globe and focuses on institutional, social and linguistic challenges and resources of the healthcare industry. It comprises studies from Canada, Australia, South Africa, Greenland, Italy, Germany, Switzerland and Belgium, and aims to introduce new paths of communicative and methodological agendas, casting a critical view on current linguistic practices in healthcare, nursing and medical interactions. With increased personal mobility in a global society, the need for multilingual staff is on the rise in medical institutions and healthcare organisations, and communicative competencies and practices involving different languages pose challenges for medical doctors, healthcare staff and patients alike. Many studies have highlighted the crucial role played by interpreters and interpreting staff, but the diversity of language situations in different countries requires very different approaches and solutions. Additionally, it may not be possible to develop a single agenda of language services for different medical areas with different needs for counselling, with various forms of treatment that require explanation and the patient‘s informed consent and with varying approaches to the relationship between medical professionals and patients. How to best organise medical (digital) language services in countries as different as South Africa, Greenland, Germany, Belgium and Australia calls for a diversity of possible solutions. The current volume makes a variety of such solutions and practices available for medical staff and healthcare institutions faced with international patients and working with international medical staff. It makes the challenges palpable on an international scale in a way that comparisons may be drawn between different solutions as well as their socio-cultural and institutional implications. This volume is intended for policy makers, medical and healthcare practitioners, institutions, interpreters, teachers and students in professional multilingual healthcare.

A Global View on Communicative Challenges

Multilingual Healthcare

Jochen Rehbein

Lukas Pietsch

In this collection of carefully selected papers connectivity is looked at from the vantage points of language contact, language change, language acquisition, multilingual communication and related domains based on various European and Non-European languages. From typological and multilingual perspectives the focus of investigation is on the grammatical architecture of a number of linguistic devices that interconnect units of text and discourse. The volume is organized along central concepts: A general section deals with connectivity in language change and language acquisition, subdivisions are devoted to pronouns, topics and subjects, the role of finiteness in text and discourse, coordination and subordination and particles, adverbials and constructions. The editors' preface introduces connectivity as an object of linguistic research.

Christiane Hohenstein

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