The Importance of Language and Culture in the Legal Process

Diana Eads: I first ran across your work with the book, Aboriginal Ways of Using English a long time ago. It's been fascinating to me to see not just how language barriers but cultural barriers cause a lot of difficulty. So my thing very much is that we take for granted the way that language and conversation works. And if you didn't grow up learning to subconsciously, mostly to communicate in that way, then learning to do that in a very formal and jargon-bound system is just a huge issue.