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

The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong, Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be practiced in a language other than English. Introduced into the courtroom over a decade ago, Cantonese has significantly altered the everyday working of the common law in Chi, The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong

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The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong
Written by author Kwai Hang Ng
Published by Stanford University Press, August 2009
Hong Kong is one of the very few places in the world where the common law can be practiced in a language other than English. Introduced into the courtroom over a decade ago, Cantonese has significantly altered the everyday working of the common law in Chi
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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Preface....................ix
Acknowledgments....................xiii
A Note on Orthography and Transcription....................xvii
A Note on Terminology....................xxi
1 The Challenge of Legal Bilingualism in Hong Kong....................3
2 Juridical Formalism and the Mechanism of Legal Rearticulation....................33
3 The Practices of English and Cantonese in Colonial Hong Kong....................50
4 English Courtrooms in Hong Kong: The Haven of Formalism....................79
5 Marshaling the Legal Boundaries: Court Interpreters and Juridical Formalism....................120
6 Cantonese Courtrooms: Formalism in Flux....................163
7 Language Ideology and Legal Bilingualism....................203
8 Institutional Adaptation to Legal Bilingualism....................235
9 Legal Bilingualism and the Postcolonial Dilemma....................254
Appendix: Methodology....................273
List of Abbreviations....................281
Notes....................283
List of Cases Cited....................301
Bibliography....................303
Index....................319

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

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