Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom, Eva N. S. Ng (2018)

Authors

  • Kwai Hang Ng University of California

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.39354

Keywords:

Book Review, Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom

Abstract

Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom Eva N. S. Ng (2018) John Benjamins pp 373

Author Biography

  • Kwai Hang Ng, University of California

    Richard Powell is Professor of English at Nihon University in Tokyo with responsibility for the College of Economics' international programme. His teaching focuses on language and human rights, sociolinguistics and legal language and he researches in these areas as well as in language planning and cross-cultural pragmatics. He is a board member of the Japan Association of Language and Law.

References

Berk-Seligson, Susan (2002) The Bilingual Courtroom: Court Interpreters in the Judicial Process (with a new chapter) Chicago: University of Chicago Press. https://doi.org/10.7208/chicago/9780226923277.001.0001

Ng, Kwai Hang (2009) The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law and the Postcolonial Predicament in Hong Kong. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0305741011000488

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Published

2019-09-11

Issue

Vol. 26 No. 1 (2019)

Section

Book Reviews

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How to Cite

Ng, K. H. (2019). Common Law in an Uncommon Courtroom, Eva N. S. Ng (2018). International Journal of Speech, Language and the Law, 26(1), 121-125. https://doi.org/10.1558/ijsll.39354