A handbook on Legal Languages and the quest for linguistic equality in South Africa and beyond

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)...

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Hlavní autoři: Docrat, Zakeera, Kaschula, Russell H, Ralarala, Monwabisi K
Médium: E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Stellenbosch African Sun Media 2021
AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Vydání:1
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Communication Studies
Law
ISBN:9781991201263, 1991201265, 9781991201270, 1991201273
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  • Front Matter Table of Contents List of Figures and Tables LIST OF ACRONYMS AND ABBREVIATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ABOUT THE AUTHORS PREFACE FOREWORD 1: INTRODUCTION: 2: THE LANGUAGE OF PROCEEDINGS IN COURTS ON AFRICAN CONTINENT: 3: INSIGHTS FROM INTERNATIONAL CASE STUDIES ON LANGUAGE AND LAW: 4: THE MONOLINGUAL LANGUAGE OF RECORD IN SOUTH AFRICAN COURTS: 5: THE LANGUAGE QUESTION IN LEGISLATIVE AND POLICY INSTRUMENTS: 6a: Part One: 6b: Part Two: 7: THE LANGUAGE QUESTION BEFORE COURTS: 8: SOUTH AFRICA’S LEGAL PRACTITIONERS AND JUDICIAL OFFICERS: 9: THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOUTH AFRICA’S LEGAL SYSTEM AND HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: 10: CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: REFERENCES Back Matter
  • Language equality in the South African legal system -- The limitations analysis: sliding scale formula -- South African language demographics: statistics -- English language limitations of South African litigants -- Conclusion -- 7: The Language Question before Courts -- South African case law -- Conclusion -- 8: South Africa's Legal Practitioners and Judicial Officers -- Legislative language requirements for legal practitioners -- A transformed legal profession: Legal Practice Act -- Legal professionals: racial demographics -- Attorneys' views on languages other than English -- Conclusion -- 9: The Relationship between South Africa's Legal System and Higher Education Institutions -- Language planning in higher education -- Transformation and decolonisation -- Higher education legislative and policy framework -- Selected university language policies -- A critique of selected university language policies -- The language question at selected universities -- Language as part of the LLB curriculum -- Analysis of the higher education language policy cases -- Conclusion -- 10: Conclusions and Recommendations -- Introduction -- Overview -- Recommendations -- Conclusion -- References
  • Intro -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- Preface -- Foreword -- 1: Introduction -- Context of the research -- Research area: forensic linguistics or language and law -- Study area -- Research problem -- Goals of the research -- Conclusion -- 2: The Language of Proceedings in Courts on the African Continent -- International jurisprudence -- Kenya's sociolinguistic landscape -- Nigeria's sociolinguistic landscape -- Morocco's sociolinguistic landscape -- Conclusion -- 3: Insights from International Case Studies on Language and Law -- Australia's sociolinguistic landscape -- Belgium's sociolinguistic landscape -- Canadian sociolinguistic landscape -- India's sociolinguistic landscape -- Conclusion -- 4: The Monolingual Language of Record in South African Courts -- Defining the language of record -- History of the language(s) of record in South African courts of law -- Administrative law as an enabling framework -- Language of record directive -- The legality of the language of record directive -- Interpretational rights and the failures of social justice -- The problem with interpretation: quality versus efficacy -- Conclusion -- 5: The Language Question in Legislative and Policy Instruments -- The relationship between forensic linguistics and applied language studies -- Defining language planning -- Ideologies underpinning language planning in South Africa -- Legislative drafting -- Conclusion -- 6a: Part 1: South Africa's Constitutional Language Rights and Provisions -- South African constitutional framework -- South African constitutional language rights -- The enforceability of the constitutional language framework -- Section 35 imposing language or interpretational rights -- 6b: Part 2: Linguistic (In)equality in South Africa's Legal System