Language Ideology and Legal Bilingualism
Language Ideology and Legal Bilingualism
Drawing from in-depth interviews with judges and barristers, this chapter explains how the legal professionals' understandings of legal bilingualism are constructed through a stereotypic characterization of what English and Chinese are good and bad at. It describes how linguistic ideologies of English and Cantonese and their complex systems of ideas and interests through which people interpret linguistic practices rationalize and affect the use of the two languages in the legal realm.
Keywords: legal bilingualism, linguistic ideologies, linguistic practices, English language, Cantonese language
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