ABSTRACT
Today, International Commercial Arbitration (ICA) is a widely adopted Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR) method used to resolve international disputes of a commercial nature. It is a particularly attractive tool for international companies, especially given that the enforcement of awards at an international level, and not only at a domestic level, is a key feature of the New York Convention (Moses, 2008). The private aspect of the process allows parties from different linguistic and legal cultures to resolve their disputes, while limiting the potential for intervention by the courts. Some Asian countries, such as Singapore and Hong Kong, have assumed a leading role in international arbitration, and the growing economic role of powers, such as China and India, together with the increasing attention to the arbitral field by linguists and legal scholars make the investigation of Asian arbitration discourse even more urgent.
