The common law in two voices : language, law, and the postcolonial dilemma in Hong Kong / Kwai Hang Ng.
2009
KNQ9335 .N468 2009 (Map It)
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Author
Title
The common law in two voices : language, law, and the postcolonial dilemma in Hong Kong / Kwai Hang Ng.
Published
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2009]
Copyright
©2009
Call Number
KNQ9335 .N468 2009
Former Call Number
Ch.HK 710 N51 2009
ISBN
9780804761642 (cloth : alk. paper)
0804761647 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804761659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804761655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804761647 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804761659 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0804761655 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Description
xxiii, 328 pages ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)298324372
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-317) and index.
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Table of Contents
Pt. 1
Understanding Law and Language in Hong Kong
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
Pt. 2
How Cantonese and English Work in the Courts
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
Pt. 3
Legal Bilingualism and the Rule of Law
7
Language Ideology and Legal Bilingualism
203
8
Institutional Adaptation to Legal Bilingualism
235
9
Legal Bilingualism and the Postcolonial Dilemma
254
App
Methodology
273
List of Abbreviations
281
Notes
283
List of Cases Cited
301
Bibliography
303
Index
319