@techreport{b86ee711994448e78c25bdada6a1dae8,
title = "Ethnographic research on ad-hoc interpreting in an emergency department: the challenges of data collection",
abstract = "This paper describes the methods used and the challenges encountered during data collection for an ethnographic study on language barriers and ad-hoc interpreting in a linguistically diverse inner-city hospital emergency department (ED). Data collection relied on ethnographic participant observation and transcripts of audio-recorded clinician-patient interactions to describe and analyse how staff, patients, and ad-hoc interpreters interact in an ED setting. This paper reviews the different practical steps that needed to be undertaken before embarking on data collection, with a view to stirring the discussion on these issues and facilitating future research. ",
keywords = "audio recording, language barriers, ad hoc interpreting, emergency department, ethnographic data collection, access to the field",
author = "Antoon Cox",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Working Papers in Urban Language and Literacies",
publisher = "King's College London, Centre for Language Discourse & Communication",
number = "151",
type = "WorkingPaper",
institution = "King's College London, Centre for Language Discourse & Communication",
}