More than 170 million people in the world have some kind of speech impairment. The lack of professional interpreters in this domain causes their families to need to learn new communicative strategies to interact with them and assist them as interpreters. The aim of this paper is to analyze the role of these non-professional interpreters for adults with a speech impairment caused by an acquired brain injury. Data come from 13 qualitative interviews and participant observations of 7 persons with acquired brain injury and their families during 18 months. The paper shows the communicative and multimodal strategies these ad-hoc interpreters use to understand the person with impaired speech and the strategies such persons use to make themselves understandable. It also shows how meaning is negotiated and jointly constructed, the power dynamics that emerge from interpreting practices and the impact this has on the speech-impaired persons’ agency.

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获得性语言障碍人士的沟通：家庭作为语言中介的角色

世界上有超过 1.7 亿人患有某种语言障碍。该领域专业口译员的缺乏导致他们的家人需要学习新的交际策略来与他们互动并协助他们担任口译员。本文的目的是分析这些非专业口译员对因获得性脑损伤而导致语言障碍的成年人的作用。数据来自 18 个月内对 7 名获得性脑损伤患者及其家人的 13 次定性访谈和参与观察。该论文展示了这些临时口译员用来理解言语障碍者的交际和多模式策略，以及这些人用来使自己被理解的策略。它还展示了意义是如何协商和共同构建的，