Volume 29, Issue 4 - Writing for Patients
Translation: A transcultural activity
Author: Andrea Rossi
Abstract
Effective communication is the goal of any professional medical and communication writer. Transferring the correct messages from one language to another is a task that is increasingly covered by software, but translation machines cannot confer the feeling of people with a different background. Any medical translation is not just a transformation of the text from the source language to the output one: a translated text must communicate the exact meaning in the source language and, thus, has to fit with the reader’s culture.
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