Language Engineering for Legal Transplantation: Conceptual Problems in Creating Common Law Chinese.

Sin, King-Kui; Roebuck, Derek

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ERIC Number: EJ530894

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Publication Date: 1996

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Language Engineering for Legal Transplantation: Conceptual Problems in Creating Common Law Chinese.

Sin, King-Kui; Roebuck, Derek

Language & Communication, v16 n3 p235-54 Jul 1996

Discusses the difficulties inherent in creating an authentic Chinese text of the legislation of Hong Kong. The article argues that the real difficulty lies in the need for a change in perspective, and once this change occurs, what remains is the technicality of linguistic manipulation. "Law" Chinese will best develop out of the English corpus of the law. (50 references) (CK)

Descriptors: Bilingualism, Change Strategies, Chinese, Colonialism, Concept Formation, Court Litigation, English, Foreign Countries, Language Attitudes, Metalinguistics, Morphemes, Official Languages, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Speech Communication

Publication Type: Reports - Descriptive; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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Identifiers - Location: Hong Kong; United Kingdom (Great Britain)

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