Brad Davidson
Biographic Data
| ID | 3637870 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brad Davidson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brad |
| FAMILY NAME | Davidson |
| SIGNATURE | DAVIDSON B |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 159 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A model for the construction of conversational common ground in interpreted discourse
Questions in Cross-Linguistic Medical Encounters
Physician-patient discourse, even same-language discourse, may be viewed as a type of cross-cultural interaction. Inside the US, there is a large and increasing number of adult Third World immigrant patients who do not speak English. For these patients the "cross-cultural" aspect of First World medical practice is underscored by the presence of the medical interpreter, who is herself faced with the task of negotiating both the content of utteranc…
The interpreter as institutional gatekeeper
Increases in immigration have led to an enormous growth in the number of cross-linguistic medical encounters taking place throughout the United States. In this article the role of hospital-based interpreters in cross-linguistic, internal medicine 'medical interviews' is examined. The interpreter's actions are analyzed against the historical and institutional context within which she is working, and also with an eye to the institutional goals that…
Diagnosing Illness Across Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
Sociolinguistic Variation
Pragmatic weight' and Spanish subject pronouns
Spanish is a pro-drop language in which first and second person subject pronouns are frequently omitted (80%); traditionally the function of overt subject pronouns has been regarded as adding emphasis or to contrast explicit statements. I argue that their function is more similar to that of topicalized NPs, referred to as X-Forms by Klein-Andreu (1989a,b), and that their appearance is governed by their conversational function as discourse topics;…
The interpreter as institutional gatekeeper
Increases in immigration have led to an enormous growth in the number of cross-linguistic medical encounters taking place throughout the United States. In this article the role of hospital-based interpreters in cross-linguistic, internal medicine 'medical interviews' is examined. The interpreter's actions are analyzed against the historical and institutional context within which she is working, and also with an eye to the institutional goals that…
A model for the construction of conversational common ground in interpreted discourse
Questions in Cross-Linguistic Medical Encounters
Physician-patient discourse, even same-language discourse, may be viewed as a type of cross-cultural interaction. Inside the US, there is a large and increasing number of adult Third World immigrant patients who do not speak English. For these patients the "cross-cultural" aspect of First World medical practice is underscored by the presence of the medical interpreter, who is herself faced with the task of negotiating both the content of utteranc…
Pragmatic weight' and Spanish subject pronouns
Spanish is a pro-drop language in which first and second person subject pronouns are frequently omitted (80%); traditionally the function of overt subject pronouns has been regarded as adding emphasis or to contrast explicit statements. I argue that their function is more similar to that of topicalized NPs, referred to as X-Forms by Klein-Andreu (1989a,b), and that their appearance is governed by their conversational function as discourse topics;…
Sociolinguistic Variation
Pragmatic weight' and Spanish subject pronouns
Spanish is a pro-drop language in which first and second person subject pronouns are frequently omitted (80%); traditionally the function of overt subject pronouns has been regarded as adding emphasis or to contrast explicit statements. I argue that their function is more similar to that of topicalized NPs, referred to as X-Forms by Klein-Andreu (1989a,b), and that their appearance is governed by their conversational function as discourse topics;…
Diagnosing Illness Across Languages
Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: General Session and Parasession on Pragmatics and Grammatical Structure (1997)
The interpreter as institutional gatekeeper
Increases in immigration have led to an enormous growth in the number of cross-linguistic medical encounters taking place throughout the United States. In this article the role of hospital-based interpreters in cross-linguistic, internal medicine 'medical interviews' is examined. The interpreter's actions are analyzed against the historical and institutional context within which she is working, and also with an eye to the institutional goals that…
Questions in Cross-Linguistic Medical Encounters
Physician-patient discourse, even same-language discourse, may be viewed as a type of cross-cultural interaction. Inside the US, there is a large and increasing number of adult Third World immigrant patients who do not speak English. For these patients the "cross-cultural" aspect of First World medical practice is underscored by the presence of the medical interpreter, who is herself faced with the task of negotiating both the content of utteranc…
A model for the construction of conversational common ground in interpreted discourse
Computer Science (5 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Interpreter (4 works) · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare (4 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Immigration (2 works) · Law (2 works)