Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
7-2024
Abstract
This work examines the localization practices of Indigenous court interpreters through prototyping and analyzing legal glossaries in eight Indigenous languages from the State of Oaxaca, Mexico. These languages are often needed in Mexican courts and immigration court hearings in the United States. Thus, examining the localization praxes of the court interpreters who use them can provide important intercultural technical and professional communication insights in global contexts. I compare the preliminary results of this ongoing study with the court interpreters' code of ethics from the State of California to demonstrate how Western court assumptions about language interpretation cause gaps between worldviews. This work also shows how court expectations do not always reflect the localization practices of Indigenous court interpreters.
Recommended Citation
N. K. Rivera, "Carrying Meaning, Bridging Worlds: Indigenous Language Localization in Western Courts," 2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm), Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2024, pp. 84-88, https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00023.
Peer Reviewed
1
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Comments
This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in the proceedings of the 2024 IEEE International Professional Communication Conference (ProComm). This article may not exactly replicate the final published version. The definitive publisher-authenticated version is available online at https://doi.org/10.1109/ProComm61427.2024.00023.