30.904, Books: Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders: Leung

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Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2019 17:22:56
From: Alyssa Russell [Alyssa.Russell at oup.com]
Subject: Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal Orders: Leung

 


Title: Shallow Equality and Symbolic Jurisprudence in Multilingual Legal
Orders 
Series Title: Oxford Studies in Language and Law  

Publication Year: 2019 
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Book URL: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/shallow-equality-and-symbolic-jurisprudence-in-multilingual-legal-orders-9780190210335?q=Shallow%20Equality%20and%20Symbolic%20Jurisprudence%20in%20Multilingual%20Legal%20Orders&lang=en&cc=us 


Author: Janny H.C. Leung

Hardback: ISBN:  9780190210335 Pages: 320 Price: U.S. $ 99


Abstract:

What challenges face jurisdictions that attempt to conduct law in two or more
languages? How does choosing a legal language affect the way in which justice
is delivered? Answers to these questions are vital for the 75 officially
bilingual and multilingual states of the world, as well as for other states
contemplating a move towards multilingualism. Arguably such questions have
implications for all countries in a world characterized by the pressures of
globalization, economic integration, population mobility, decolonization, and
linguistic re-colonization. For lawyers, addressing such challenges is made
essential by the increased frequency and scale of transnational legal dealings
and proceedings, as well as by the lengthening reach of international law. But
it is not only policy makers, legislators, and other legal practitioners who
must think about such questions. The relationship between societal
multilingualism and law also raises questions for the burgeoning field of
language and law, which posits--among other tenets--the centrality of language
in legal processes. 

In this book, Janny H.C. Leung examines key aspects of legal multilingualism.
Drawing extensively on case studies, she describes the implications of the
legal, practical, and ideological dilemmas encountered in a given country when
it becomes bilingual or multilingual, discussing such issues as: how legal
certainty and the linguistic ideology of authenticity may be challenged in a
multilingual jurisdiction; how courts balance the language preferences of
different courtroom participants; and what historical, socio-political and
economic factors may influence the decision to cement a given language as a
jurisdiction's official language. Throughout, Leung elaborates a theory of
"symbolic jurisprudence" to explore common dilemmas found across countries,
despite their varied political and cultural settings, and argues that
linguistic equality as proclaimed and practiced today is a shallow kind of
equality. Although officially multilingual jurisdictions appear to be more
inclusive than their monolingual counterparts, they run the risk of disguising
substantive inequalities and displacing real efforts for more progressive
social change. This is the first book to offer overarching discussion of how
such issues relate to each other, and the first systematic study of legal
multilingualism as a global phenomenon.
 



Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Written In: English  (eng)

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http://linguistlist.org/pubs/books/get-book.cfm?BookID=134193




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