The common law in two voices language, law, and the postcolonial dilemma in Hong Kong - Ng, Kwai Hang (Stanford University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-317) and index
The challenge of legal bilingualism in Hong Kong -- Juridical formalism and the mechanism of legal rearticulation -- The practices of English and Cantonese in colonial Hong Kong -- English courtrooms in Hong Kong : the haven of formalism -- Marshalling the legal boundaries : court interpreters and juridical formalism -- The Cantonese courtrooms : formalism in flux -- Language ideology and legal bilingualism -- Institutional adaptation to legal bilingualism -- Legal bilingualism and Hong Kong's postcolonial dilemma