Open AccessNot Just in English Anymore: Government Documents in Other Languages
Author(s) -
Jane Canfield
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
dttp/documents to the people
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 0270-5095
pISSN - 0091-2085
DOI - 10.5860/dttp.v48i1.7332
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , linguistics , history , sociology , media studies , philosophy
Think about a disaster that you have never experienced personally or that occurs in other areas but not where you live. For me, that is a wildfire. Now, imagine that the only available information is in a language you cannot read or understand. For my first few years living in Puerto Rico that was me.