The Common Law in Two Voices : Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong.

By:

Ng, Kwai Hang

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2009.Description: 1 online resource (354 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780804772358
0804772355

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:

349.51

LOC classification:

KNQ9335 .N46 2009

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Contents:

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.

Summary: This book examines how language changes the way law is debated and negotiated, focusing on the courtrooms of postcolonial Hong Kong.

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This book examines how language changes the way law is debated and negotiated, focusing on the courtrooms of postcolonial Hong Kong.