Cultural awareness is a quality all good translators have. Anyone who has ever been submerged in two or more completely different languages understands that there is more to language than just words: There is culture, history, legacy, tradition, and other subtleties that make up both the textual and sub or paratextual meaning behind the words [...]

Just last month we looked at a UWS Research that revealed the Importance of Accurate Court Interpreting in criminal trials. The research had found that without proper specialist training, court interpreters tend to make technical/linguistic mistakes that can lead to inadequate legal outcomes.

Beyond Words just published a great post on the language needs of Hmong hunters in California and since I found it so interesting, I thought I’d share it here.

Last week the president of Argentina, Cristina Kirchner, accused Vice President Julio Cobos of plotting to destabilize the country and overthrow the government to satisfy his own ambition and win his place as president in 2010.

Although the Argentine Criminal Code does not provide a legal definition for abortion, the practice is still penalized. As is the case when legislators fail to provide definitions under Continental Law, this omission has led legal doctrine to provide definitions of its own when applying pertinent sections of the Criminal Code. Today, the most prominent [...]