Involvement of medical technologies in healthcare encounters calls for a critical analysis of the communicative expertise of healthcare personnel dealing with the technology while communicating with patients. This paper explores how a discourse analytic approach, activity analysis, is fruitful when identifying what characterizes human interaction involving medical technologies. The paper sugges...

Abstract The paper examines how U.S.-American movies stage and convey intercultural encounters. Drawing from the case study of cinematic New York City, it tackles encounters spaces emerging interactions protagonists that are staged as being ‘culturally different’. Theoretical ideas on urban encounters, interculturality, boundaries intertwined. A comparative analysis 17 reveals three key dimensi...