Intercultural translation of vague legal language

Bowen, Alex

doi:10.1075/target.19181.bow

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“…Finally, as before, it is impossible to leave this section without mentioning the topic of interviews that involve languages other than English. Linguists are already well aware of poor practice in communication during interviews between police and less proficient speakers of English (e.g., Eades, 2018;Bowen, 2021), and are undertaking valuable research to bring improvement (e.g., Hale et al, 2019). It is certain there must also be major issues in relation to how transcripts of interpreted interviews are produced and used (cf.…”

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Capturing Talk: The Institutional Practices Surrounding the Transcription of Spoken Language

2024

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Capturing Talk: The Institutional Practices Surrounding the Transcription of Spoken Language

2024

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“…47 As in the provision quoted above in fn8. Bowen (2020Bowen ( , 2021 analyses a 'Plain English' standard for legal communications, noting that what is comprehensible differs depending on the level of shared knowledge between the state and the audience. See also Fisher's (2020: ii) recent doctoral research on Plain English in Australian legal communications, which argues 'there are costs [to] systematically misrepresenting an intention to communicate effectively as the solution to a complex set of social and legal issues'.…”

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An audit of NSW legislation and policy on the government’s public communications in languages other than English

Grey

Severin

2021

Griffith Law Review

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This article reports on a 2019-2021 audit of the framework of an Australian statelevel government's decisions about their public communications in languages other than English (LOTEs). This audit involved a systematic search and analysis of current New South Wales (NSW) legislation and publicly available, formal, departmental policy. It found a dearth of either legislation or policy about the language of government communications, but we present a typology of ways in which NSW law seeks to regulate choice of language in other Introduction: Why Audit Official Communications Laws and Policies? Public government communications are those directed at a mass audience rather than government communications to specific individuals. These are often therefore standardised written or audio-visual texts disseminated via official websites and printed publications, television, and radio. Interpreting and translation may be used to overcome linguistic barriers in government communications to either the public or individuals. For example, Auslan (Australian Sign Language) interpreting came to be used in daily televised press conferences disseminating public information from the NSW government about the 2019-2020 bushfires. 1 This article reports on an audit of laws and policies in NSW which guide/control such official public communications, specifically in relation to choices to use languages other than English (LOTEs) for NSW government public communications. The audit was designed to investigate laws and policies about the languages that may, should, or may not be used in any communications, in order to contextualise the subset of laws and policies about the language of public government communications.With 22.2 per cent of Australian households now reporting that they speak a LOTE at home, 2 how to reach a linguistically diverse public is a question worth considering in all Australian states and territories, yet the relevant policy processes, expertise, and co-ordination between government organisations and jurisdictions are still developing. The state of NSW is particularly linguistically diverse and therefore our initial focus. 3 In Greater Sydney, both NSW and Australia's most populous metropolitan area, 38.2 per cent of households now speak a LOTE at homeand in some suburbs this figure almost doubles. When major metropolitan areas are excluded, the proportion falls to just 7.4 per cent, well below the national average. 41 Tatham (2020). 2 Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) (2020). 3 The first author's broader research project extends to other Australia jurisdictions' laws and formal policies, and both authors have, moreover, extended the research to government communications practices. See Grey (2020a, 2020c). 4 ABS (2020).

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“…Zanettin et al (2015) conducted a bibliographic study on translation studies research and found that the notion of cultural translation presents a significant challenge, for it enables an examination of the relationship between translation studies and intercultural communication. In fact, scholars of both intercultural communication and translation studies have long focused on how these overlapping ideas serve as the primary motivation for and critical factors in successful language-related activities, such as intercultural awareness in healthcare research (Lê, 2008), translational action (Buhrig et al , 2014), intercultural competence in translator training (Tomozeiu et al , 2016), translation as conduit for fake news (Phanthaphoommee, 2023), the changing role of translation and intercultural communication in the digital age (Cronin, 2012; O’Hagan, 2015), mediation for the self and others (Liddicoat, 2016), migration and public service interpreting/translation (Valero-Garcés, 2019; Techawongstien and Phanthaphoommee, 2022), audiovisual translation as intercultural mediation (Guillot and Pavesi, 2019), local online activism for global audience (Doungphummes et al , 2023; Phanthaphoommee et al , 2023), legal translation (Bowen, 2021), the revisited concept of intercultural mediation (Taibi, 2022), to name but a few.…”

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Guest editorial: When intercultural communication meets translation studies: divergent experiences in qualitative inquiries

Phanthaphoommee,

Doungphummes

2024

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Intercultural translation of vague legal language

Cited by 9 publications

References 51 publications

Capturing Talk: The Institutional Practices Surrounding the Transcription of Spoken Language

Capturing Talk: The Institutional Practices Surrounding the Transcription of Spoken Language

An audit of NSW legislation and policy on the government’s public communications in languages other than English

Guest editorial: When intercultural communication meets translation studies: divergent experiences in qualitative inquiries

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