Communicating across cultures in South African law courts: Towards an information technology solution
| Autor: | Monwabisi K. Ralarala, Russell H. Kaschula, Andre Mostert |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Linguistics and Language
south african law courts business.industry Constitution media_common.quotation_subject lcsh:PL8000-8844 Computer based Information technology ComputingMilieux_LEGALASPECTSOFCOMPUTING Context (language use) Economic Justice The Republic Language and Linguistics lcsh:African languages and literature lcsh:Philology. Linguistics information communication technology lcsh:P1-1091 Information and Communications Technology Law Political science Academic community communicating across cultures business media_common |
| Zdroj: | Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus; Vol 36 (2008); 89-104 Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus, Vol 36, Iss 0, Pp 89-104 (2008) |
| ISSN: | 2224-3380 |
| Popis: | Language rights in South Africa are entrenched in the Constitution of South Africa (Chapter 1, Section 6, Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996). However, the concomitant infrastructure and organisational realities make this policy difficult to implement, especially in law courts (Kaschula and Ralarala 2004). Creating effective communicative environments has historically been constrained by lack of effective training of legal practitioners and by the lack of capacity for building translation structures. With the advancement of technology, potential solutions are becoming more apparent and it is incumbent upon the academic community to embark on a rigorous investigation into possible solutions and how these Information Communication Technology (ICT) solutions could be applied to the execution of justice in South African law courts. This article aims to open the discourse of possible solutions, via assessments of computer based translation solutions, ICT context simulations and other potential opportunities. The authors hope to initiate the interest of other language and legal practitioners to explore how the new technological capabilities could be harnessed to support the entrenchment of language rights in our law courts. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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