Moving towards culturally competent health systems for migrants? Applying systems thinking in a qualitative study in Malaysia and Thailand (Nicola Suyin Pocock, Zhie Chan, Tharani Loganathan, Rapeepong Suphanchaimat, Hathairat Kosiyaporn, Pascale Allotey, Wei-Kay Chan, David Tan

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0231154

This article describes a study done on hospitals in Malaysia and Thailand.  The study focuses on the challenges in treating migrant populations.

I used this article, and other articles on hospitals to provide examples of communication over  language barriers.  While I will still include this article in my bibliography I have found other articles that provide more evidence relevant to my topic.

GESTURE LANGUAGE IN CULTURE CONTACT

Author(s): Gordon W. Hewes

Source: Sign Language Studies , 1974 APRIL, No. 4 (1974 APRIL), pp. 1-34

Published by: Gallaudet University Press

: https://www.jstor.org/stable/26203092

This article is about hand gestures being used to bridge a language barrier.  The article makes the argument that humans have regularly used signs as a means of communication across a language barrier.  The article provides many examples, primarily coming from accounts of sailors and explorers as they came into contact with other peoples who spoke a different language.

The article provides some of the most direct evidence for my claim.  I cited this article several times in my essay to provide examples of people communicating through gestures in the absence of interpreters.

Hand gestures Author(s): William S. King Source: Western Folklore , Jul., 1949, Vol. 8, No. 3 (Jul., 1949), pp. 263-264 Published by: Western States Folklore Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/1497931 

This article provides a list of commonly used hand gestures.

This was one of the first articles I found in my research, but it did not provide any relevant information, so it was not used.

Understanding Human Gestures Author(s): Maurice H. Krout Source: The Scientific Monthly , Aug., 1939, Vol. 49, No. 2 (Aug., 1939), pp. 167-172 Published by: American Association for the Advancement of Science Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/17039 

This article is about hand gestures and research into them.  This article is very old should be read with more skepticism

As already mentioned.  This article is very old and did not provide highly relevant information.  As my argument evolves, information from this article may find its way into my essay but the article’s age may prevent this.

The Different Benefits from Different Gestures in Understanding a Concept Author(s): Seokmin Kang, Gregory L. Hallman, Lisa K. Son and John B. Black Source: Journal of Science Education and Technology , DECEMBER 2013, Vol. 22, No. 6 (DECEMBER 2013), pp. 825-837 Published by: Springer Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/24019761 

This article is about the effects gestures have on learning and understanding a concept.

While this article is about a fascinating field of study I did not find much relevant information.  That my change upon rereading and it may find it’s way into my essay

Why Do We Gesture When We Speak? Author(s): Robert M. Krauss Source: Current Directions in Psychological Science , Apr., 1998, Vol. 7, No. 2 (Apr., 1998), pp. 54-60 Published by: Sage Publications, Inc. on behalf of Association for Psychological Science Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/20182502 

This article provides a detailed study on how gestures affect speaking.

While this article does not seem relevant to my argument that trade over a language barrier increases the use of hand gestures.  The amount of data present in the article may prove to be useful

Beyond Borders: An In-depth Analysis of Cultural Variances in Non-Verbal Communication Through Gestures and Hands Francesco Galvano https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Francesco-Galvano/publication/377396770_Beyond_Borders_An_In-depth_Analysis_of_Cultural_Variances_in_Non-Verbal_Communication_Through_Gestures_and_Hands/links/65a41c3dc77ed94047784212/Beyond-Borders-An-In-depth-Analysis-of-Cultural-Variances-in-Non-Verbal-Communication-Through-Gestures-and-Hands.pdf 

This article is about how different cultures use hand gestures.

This article has the potential to provide plenty of useful information for my essay.

Body-oriented gestures as a practitioner’s window into interpreted communication

Author links open overlay panelJennifer Gerwing a, Shuangyu Li b

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277953619303107

This article is about the use of hand gestures in a hospital setting, more specifically it is about how doctor’s and interpreter’s use hand gestures to communicate with patients.

One of the counter arguments to my claim is that interpreters would replace hand gestures.  The information in this article can be used to counter that claim with examples of the utility of hand gestures even when an interpreter is present.

The Gestural Origins of Language: Human language may have evolved from manual gestures, which survive today as a “behavioral fossil” coupled to speech Author(s): Michael C. Corballis Source: American Scientist , MARCH-APRIL 1999, Vol. 87, No. 2 (MARCH-APRIL 1999), pp. 138-145 Published by: Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Honor Society Stable URL: https://www.jstor.org/stable/27857812 

This article investigates the idea that verbal language evolved from gesture language.

This article was a fascinating read, however I did not find it particularly relevant to my claim.  This article is concerned with the ultimate origin of verbal language and it links that origin to gestures.  My claim is not about the origin of hand gestures, it is simply that trade over a language barrier increases their use.  That being said this article does provide good examples of the surprising effectiveness of gestural communication

Do Gestures Communicate? A Review

Adam Kendon

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1207/s15327973rlsi2703_2

The functional origins of speech-related hand gestures

Author links open overlay panelIan Q. Whishaw, Lori-Ann R. Sacrey, Scott G. Travis, Gita Gholamrezaei, Jenni M. Karl

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166432810003888

Dentist-patient communication in the multilingual dental setting

C. Goldsmith, L. Slack-Smith, G. Davies

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/j.1834-7819.2005.tb00366.x

Title

HOW LANGUAGE BARRIERS IMPACT PATIENT CARE: A COMMENTARY.

Authors

Aboul-Enein, Faisal H.; Ahmed, Fatemeh

https://openurl.ebsco.com/EPDB%3Agcd%3A14%3A10778414/detailv2?sid=ebsco%3Aplink%3Ascholar&id=ebsco%3Agcd%3A22273394&crl=c

Achieving visibility? Use of non-verbal communication in interactions between patients and pharmacists who do not share a common language

Fiona Stevenson

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-9566.12102

Overcoming communication barriers in a multicultural radiography setting

Cherise Janse van Vuuren

ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3371-781X

Barbara van Dyk

ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9498-9726

Padidi L. Mokoena

ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1303-1469

https://www.ajol.info/index.php/hsa/article/view/215925

Communication Challenges Faced by Spanish-Speaking Caregivers of Children with Medical Complexity: a Qualitative Study

Published: 30 September 2021

Savithri Nageswaran, Margaret B. Ellis & Mark S. Beveridge 

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40615-021-01161-x

Perspectives of Nurses on Patients With Limited English Proficiency and Their Call Light Use

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2333393616637764

Bridging language barriers in multilingual care encounters

Gunilla Jansson EMAIL logo

From the journal Multilingua

https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/multi-2014-0009/html

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL): Improving English Language Acquisition for Preliterate and Nonliterate Adult African Refugees

Thandi S. Tshabangu-Soko &Rosemary M. Caronhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/15562948.2011.616812