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Interpreting, communication & Global English

Multilingual conferences with expert language interpretation foster participation and effective communication.
par Luigi LUCCARELLI

Today many international conferences are monolingual, which usually means English only. In many others English is designated as the only language to be spoken in the room, while interpretation into one or more other tongues is made available.
The significance of what these two models share – namely that everyone must speak English – is of no greater import than what is clearly implied in the second option: that one-way communication with a touch of courtesy for the others is enough.
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