Legal Aspects of Medical Interpreting and its Specific Features within PSI domain

The article examines characteristic features of medical interpreting as a specific field of professional activity within the framework of Public Service Interpreting as well as legal implications PSI provision. The article also considers specificity of interpreter-assisted doctor-patient communication, criteria of its effectiveness as well as the impact of institutional context on communicative goals and social identities of the participants.

Medical Interpreting, Public Service Interpreting, right for interpreter, interpreter-assisted communication, cultural mediation, communicative goals, institutional context of communication