A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond write by Zakeera Docrat. This book was released on 2021-06-02. A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond is an interdisciplinary publication located in the discipline of forensic linguistics/ language and law. This handbook includes varying comparative African and global case studies on the use of language(s) in courtroom discourse and higher education institutions: Kenya; Morocco; Nigeria; Australia; Belgium Canada and India. These African and global case studies form the backdrop for the critique of the monolingual English language of record policy for South African courts, the core of this handbook, discussed in relation to case law and the beleaguered legal interpretation profession. This handbook argues that linguistic transformation and decolonisation of South Africa’s legal and higher education systems needs to be undertaken where legal practitioners are linguistically equipped to litigate in a bilingual/ multilingual courtroom that enables access to justice for the majority of African language speaking litigants, enforcing their constitutional language rights.
Language, Crime and Courts in Contemporary Africa and Beyond
Language, Crime and Courts in Contemporary Africa and Beyond - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language, Crime and Courts in Contemporary Africa and Beyond write by Russell H. Kaschula. This book was released on 2023-09-08. Language, Crime and Courts in Contemporary Africa and Beyond available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The research represented in this volume, and in the series as a whole, is intended to provide critical analyses and findings that can underpin the development of language policies, practice guides and other resources that support a fair and accessible legal system. However, this will also require well-developed teaching and research programmes, so it is our intention that this volume will continue to support the growth of forensic linguistics in Southern African universities and nurture the next generation of scholars dedicated to forensic and legal linguistics. This aim will be supported by the newly formed African Association of Forensic and Legal Linguists (AAFLL), which will help to coordinate the study of forensic linguistics in Africa. This book series, Studies in Forensic and Legal Linguistics in Africa and Beyond, Volumes I, II, III and IV, continues to play an important role in bringing African forensic linguistic scholarship to a wider audience, while simultaneously promoting the field amongst academic and legal institutions in Africa.
Language and the Law
Language and the Law - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Language and the Law write by Monwabisi K. Ralarala. This book was released on 2022-06-14. Language and the Law available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Language and the Law: Global Perspectives in Forensic Linguistics from Africa and beyond is the third volume in a series of books designed to contribute and respond to growing interest in forensic linguistics or language and the law on the African continent. Drawing mostly on contexts where traditional African laws and Western laws are practised side-by-side, and where there are discontinuities between local knowledge systems, belief systems and language practices on the one hand, and official languages of law discourse, conceptualisation and jurisprudence documentation on the other, the chapters in this volume problematise, among other issues, the mediation practices (or lack thereof) of language and legal processes, discourse strategies and complexities in (mis)interpretations in second language court contexts and the miscarriage of justice that these may entail.
Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics
Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics write by Anne Wagner. This book was released on 2023-10-06. Research Handbook on Jurilinguistics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This Research Handbook offers a comprehensive study of jurilinguistics that not only presents the latest international research findings among academics and practitioners, but also provides a new approach to the phenomena and nature of communicative flexibility, legal genres, vulnerability of interlingual legal communication, and the cultural landscape of legal translation.
Fair Trial Rights and Multilingualism in Africa
Fair Trial Rights and Multilingualism in Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fair Trial Rights and Multilingualism in Africa write by Catherine S. Namakula. This book was released on 2022-09-19. Fair Trial Rights and Multilingualism in Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the best language fair trial practices of the courts in arguably the most multilingual region of the world. It contains an instructive list of standards and approaches to linguistic dynamics, which may be considered a language fair trial rights code. By way of jurisprudential analysis and scrutiny of constitutional imperatives and examination of legislation among the respective jurisdictions from the Sahel region, to the Horn of Africa, and the Cape, this publication presents peculiar country-specific practices and common standards aiming towards the realisation of a fair trial in a multilingual context. The exceptionally multilingual nature of legal processes in Africa makes the standards in the region instructive in the progression towards a universal language fair trial rights code. The book reveals valuable lessons across jurisdictions, including those outside Africa, and suggests measures that may be taken to improve existing approaches. It will be a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and policy-makers working in the areas of Law and Language, Legal Linguistics, Forensic Linguistics, Criminal Justice, and Comparative Law.
