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Languaging in a geriatrics clinic in rural Germany
MÜLLER, Katrin
This thesis is based on nine interviews which were conducted among physicians and patients in a rural gertiatrics clinic in Germany in which a significant number of staff is not native speakers of German, yet patients are, and the regional dialect is notable. The analysis of linguistic, intercultural and communicative obstacles staff faces in their daily life and the solutions they raise, is compared to current literature on the topic. The needs patients raise about language, communication and culture are analysed to complete the picture. The thesis conludes with an overview of how obstacles and their solutions make up languaging in the hospital, and how both hospitals and conceptualisers of German courses for migrant workers can expand their course programmes in oder to better prepare doctors and nurses for work in German, monolingual hospitals. The research also confirms what literature has found on multilingual practices in hospitals so far.

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