List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Prologue
Chapter 1 Communicating with Latino/as in Health Care: Language Barriers and Transcultural Competence
Chapter 2 Psychiatric Interviews as a Genre and Patients’ Narratives
Chapter 3 Hacer Plática: Small Talk Subgenres
Chapter 4 Register of the Psychiatric Interview: Interlocutors, Power, and Solidarity
Chapter 5 Translanguaging in Health Care Interactions
Chapter 6 Expressing Verbal Modality and Other Politeness Strategies in Psychiatric Interviews
Chapter 7 Conclusions: Spanish and Transcultural Discourse in Health, Teaching, and Research
Appendix I Summary of Patients’ Backgrounds
Appendix II Sample of a Complete Interview
References
Index