Titlebook: Language Choice in Postcolonial Law; Lessons from Malaysi Richard Powell Book 2020 Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020 Language plannin

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Book 2020hing 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 a

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1571-5361 m that most citizens lack proficiency in.Applies language-pl.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 disadvant

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Conceptualising and Contextualising Malaysian Bilingual Law,ay (or Bahasa Melayu, sometimes also referred to as Bahasa Malaysia). English is also admissible in ‘the interests of justice’. In East Malaysia English remains the official medium, but the courts are increasingly open to the use of Malay.

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Bilingualism in Law Offices,student but had come to understood its importance since starting to practise. Whereas some lecturers thought it possible to concentrate on legal skills while overlooking their students’ language problems, former bar president Steven Thiru was typical of practitioners in seeing the two as inseparable.

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Political and Economic Influences on Multilingualism and Multijuralism,ng, including Fishman (1968), Kaplan and Baldauf (1997:13), and Lo Bianco (2004). The current language policy for Malaysian law is a response to complex sociopolitical tensions that were already at play in the colonial era. This chapter begins (2.1) with an account of how colonial administrative, ed

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Acquisition Planning,ional competence is planned and supported. While law schools and legal offices are key sites for the acquisition of legal lexis and discourses, the capacity of young lawyers to work in two languages is heavily dependent on the . language education they receive. In this chapter it will be shown that

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Discourse Planning,was not apparent until the 1990s. Haarmann (.:105–105) saw psychological preparation for the application of policy to practice as sufficiently independent of corpus and status planning to warrant a distinct analytical category, which he labeled ‘prestige planning’. Neustupný (1994:50) characterised

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Language Practices in Legal Education,English in professional practice. The investigation now turns from policy to practice, beginning here with legal education and going on in the following two chapters to law offices and courtrooms. Most of the data for this chapter comes from a bricolage of questionnaires, interviews and observations