Crossed Wires
Interpreters, Translators, and Bilingual Workers in Cross-Language Research
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5454629 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bogusia Temple (Institute for Health and Social Care Research, University of Salford, U.K., corresponding author) |
| Year | 2002 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 844-854 |
| Publication date | 2002-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Qualitative Health Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1049-7323 • E-ISSN: 1552-7557 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/10432302012006010 |
| PMID | 12109728 |
| OpenAlex | W4256005687 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 107 |
| References cited | 12 |
Increasingly, researchers are undertaking studies involving people who do not speak the same language as they do. Sociologists have long argued that language constructs the social world at the same time as it describes it. However, the implications of this for cross-language research are rarely considered. Employing interpreters/translators and "cultural brokers" in research raises methodological issues around the meanings of concepts and how to convey difference. Using a project that employed two Asian mental health workers, the author teases out some of the implications for research of language difference. She focuses both on the value of a biographical approach and on the problems such an approach presents
Interpreter · Language barrier · Linguistics · Mental health · Neuroscience of multilingualism · Programming language · Psychotherapist · Qualitative research · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Computer Science · Cultural Competency in Health Care · Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
Disabling sexualities
Research ethics in practice
Facilitators and barriers to accessing reproductive health care for migrant beer promoters in Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam
Engaging with spaces of linguistic partial understanding in multilingual linguistic ethnography
Survey research with refugees
A qualitative study about immigrant workers’ perceptions of their working conditions in Spain
Doing Cross-Cultural Research
Methodological challenges in cross-language qualitative research
Language barriers and qualitative nursing research
Ethnicity and children's diets
What If I Die and No One Notices?” A Qualitative Study Exploring How Living Alone and in Poverty Impacts the Health and Well-Being of Older People in Hong Kong
Insider-outsider
The role of translators in cross-language qualitative research in psychology
Giving voice by doing with not doing through
Methodological and ethical challenges in cross-language qualitative research
A life cycle perspective on smart city innovation ecosystem
Power sharing in community-engaged research with Syrian refugees in Lebanon
Translation in cross-language qualitative research
Subjectivity and Citizenship
The Precariousness of Young Chinese Being Working Holiday Makers in New Zealand
A host community’s experiences of an international teaching practicum
Representation across languages
Educational Engagement Practices of Urban Immigrant Latina Mothers
Working with Interpreters in Qualitative Psychological Research
Unsung interpreters
Narrative analysis of written texts
Language, games and the role of interpreters in psychiatric diagnosis
How do we design and conduct cross-language research? A reflexive approach building on Squires' criteria
Conducting semi-structured interviews with the Vietnamese
Reflection-in-action in cross-language qualitative research
Enacting a critical decolonizing ethnographic approach in occupation-based research
Normal life crises and insanity—mental illness contextualised
Insiders and outsiders
Translation decisions in qualitative research
An extended briefing and debriefing technique to enhance data quality in cross-national/language mixed-method research
Research Note
Using the Rose Angina Questionnaire cross-culturally
Dwelling within political violence
‘They know where to find us ….’ Service providers’ views on Early Support and minority ethnic communities
Women's entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
The utmost strength I can bear”
Incorporating translation in qualitative studies
Data representation with a dramatic difference
Developing the Person of the Therapist When Working with Couples
Life in the big city
Experiences of work among people with disabilities who are HIV-positive in Zambia
Depression and Antidepressant Use Among Asian and Hispanic Adults
Qualitative Research and Translation Dilemmas
Evaluating a Multimodal Intervention for Hong Kong's Older Informal and Precarious Workers
Taking note of obstacles research partners negotiate in long-term higher education community engagement partnerships
Negotiating the complex geographies of friendships overseas
Overcoming language barriers in community-based research with refugee and migrant populations
Cultural Competence in Qualitative Interview Methods with Asian Immigrants
Lost in interpretation
Multilingual Translation Issues in Qualitative Research
Ageing with a unique impairment
Turning the Camera Back
Cross-language qualitative research studies dilemmas
Intimate strangers
Healthcare-seeking behaviour in relation to sexual and reproductive health among Thai-born women in Sweden
Is sex lost in translation? Linguistic and conceptual issues in the translation of sexual and reproductive health surveys
One of society's most vulnerable groups? A systematically conducted literature review exploring the vulnerability of deafblind people
Echoes from the Past
Injustices of engagement
Grandfatherhood and Leisure
Challenges of recruitment and retention of older people from culturally diverse communities in research
On being a foreign body in the field, or how reflexivity around translation can take us beyond language
What Did She Say? What Did She Say?” the Impact of Interpretation on Recruiting and Interviewing European Migrant Women in the United Kingdom
A ‘Lens of Labor
Another Person in the Room
Timing of Translation in Cross-Language Qualitative Research
Experiences and Perceptions of Physical Activity Among South Asian and Anglo-Australians With Type 2 Diabetes or Cardiovascular Disease
Tool for the Meaningful Consideration of Language Barriers in Qualitative Health Research
An Exploration of Patient Perceptions of Adherence to Tuberculosis Treatment in Tanzania
Working With Asian Language Interpreters in Qualitative Research
Vicarious Posttraumatic Growth Among Interpreters
Participatory Qualitative Research in a Multilingual Context
Working in Partnership With Interpreters
From Liminality to Vitality
Deaf Qualitative Health Research
"I am not a robot!" Interpreters' Views of Their Roles in Health Care Settings
Us and them
Conducting a Grounded Theory Study in a Language Other Than English
Street children and 'protective agency
Nice and Tidy
Covid-19 Induced Ethnographic Distance
Research in a Closed Political Context, Covid, and Across Languages
Taking Care' in Intercultural Research
Would you Decide to Keep the Power
Understanding the Language, the Culture, and the Experience
A Critical Reflection on the Use of Translators/Interpreters in a Qualitative Cross-Language Research Project
Developing Culturally Competent Health Knowledge
On assistants and researchers
Mediated research encounters
Filtered meaning
Situated knowledge in cross-cultural, cross-language research
Implementing 'insider' ethnography
Translation, representation and the Deaf 'voice
Interpreter-facilitated cross-language interviews
Dynamics of the 'field
Outside in the Teaching Machine
Destabilizing theory
Mental Health, Race and Culture
Gender in Translation
Mental Health in a Multi-ethnic Society
Moments of Writing
Quantity and Quality in Social Research
Eastern Europe's Silent Revolution
Bilingual Communicators within the Health Care Setting
A critical examination of the use of interpreters in the qualitative research process
Watch Your Tongue
| Unique citing works | 105 |
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| Citations per year | 4,86 |
| Citation span | 2004 - 2026 (23) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 101 |