4.9.9. Key Points

Here are some key points to remember:

• Effective communication is a prerequisite to information exchange across boundaries, languages and cultures.
• Terminology is an essential component of effective communication.
• Translation, terminology and interpretation play a key role in:
  
  • the management of multilingual knowledge;
  • the production of documentary and language products facilitating information interchange; and
  • the integration of language resources for a knowledge-based society.