Language Choice in Postcolonial Law

Lessons from Malaysia’s Bilingual Legal System

AvRichard Powell

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

Del 22 i serien Language Policy

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This book discusses multilingual postcolonial common law, focusing on Malaysia’s efforts to shift the language of law from English to Malay, and weighing the pros and cons of planned language shift as a solution to language-based disadvantage before the law in jurisdictions where the majority of citizens lack proficiency in the traditional legal medium. Through analysis of legislation and policy documents, interviews with lawyers, law students and law lecturers, and observations of court proceedings and law lectures, the book reflects on what is entailed in changing the language of the law. It reviews the implications of societal bilingualism for postcolonial justice systems, and raises an important question for language planners to consider: if the language of the law is changed, what else about the law changes?

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2020-02-25
Mått:155 x 235 x 24 mm
Vikt:653 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Language Policy
Antal sidor:300
Upplaga:20001
Förlag:Springer Verlag, Singapore
ISBN:9789811511721

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Richard POWELL is a Professor (English/International Course/Language & Human Rights) in the Department of Economics at Nihon University, Japan. His research interests include forensic linguistics, legal English, language planning and cross-cultural pragmatics and he conducts research in East Africa, South Asia, East Asia, and Southeast Asia. Coming to the field of language and law from a background in history (Cambridge), politics (SOAS, London), law (College of Law, London) and applied linguistics (Macquarie, Sydney), he holds a PhD in Sociolinguistics and Legal Education from Melbourne University. He is particularly interested in the macro-level decisions that influence conscious and subconscious individual choices in law and education. He is on the board of directors of Japan's Law and Language Association and sits on the advisory committee of a number of publications, including the International Journal of the Semiotics of Law and Law and Visual Jurisprudence. He is the book reviews editor of the International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Conceptualising and contextualising Malaysian bilingual law.- 2 Political and economic influences on multilingualism and multijuralism.- 3 Status planning in Malaysian law.- 4 Corpus Planning.- 5 Acquisition Planning.- 6 Discourse Planning.- 7 Language practices in legal education.- 8 Bilingualism in Law Offices.- 9 Bilingual courtrooms.- 10 Common Law and vernacularisation: A global perspective.- 11 Malaysia bilingualism as a model for postcolonial law.