This book, which is mostly a collection of the author’s research, deals with clinical encounters through an interpreter. The book analyses the clinical communication and interpretation process from a new point of view. Clinical consultation through an interpreter can be divided into bilingual and trilingual communication. Bilingual communication means that the interpreter and the patient have the same mother tongue; thus, two languages are involved in communication: the patient’s and the health provider’s languages. In trilingual clinical encounters, the patient and interpreter have...