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The Common Law in Two Voices : Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong.
This book examines how language changes the way law is debated and negotiated, focusing on the courtrooms of postcolonial Hong Kong.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Palo Alto :
Stanford University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; A Note on Orthography and Transcription; A Note on Terminology; Part One
- Understanding Law and Language in Hong Kong; 1 The Challenge of Legal Bilingualism in Hong Kong; 2 Juridical Formalism and the Mechanism of Legal Rearticulation; 3 The Practices of English and Cantonese in Colonial Hong Kong; Part Two
- How Cantonese and English Work in the Courts; 4 English Courtrooms in Hong Kong: The Haven of Formalism; 5 Marshaling the Legal Boundaries: Court Interpreters and Juridical Formalism; 6 Cantonese Courtrooms: Formalism in Flux.
- Part Three Legal Bilingualism and the Rule of Law7 Language Ideology and Legal Bilingualism; 8 Institutional Adaptation to Legal Bilingualism; 9 Legal Bilingualism and the Postcolonial Dilemma; Appendix: Methodology; List of Abbreviations; Notes; List of Cases Cited; Bibliography.