Shallow equality and symbolic jurisprudence in multilingual legal orders / / Janny H.C. Leung.
This text offers a critical perspective to the proliferation of official multilingualism in the contemporary world. Through diachronic and synchronic comparisons, it shows that official multilingualism has become a norm in the political management of linguistic diversity, but actual practices vary a...
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| Superior document: | Oxford studies in language and law |
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Oxford University Press,, 2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford studies in language and law.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (321 pages). |
| Notes: | Previously issued in print: 2019. |
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| Summary: | This text offers a critical perspective to the proliferation of official multilingualism in the contemporary world. Through diachronic and synchronic comparisons, it shows that official multilingualism has become a norm in the political management of linguistic diversity, but actual practices vary according to sociohistorical contexts and current power dynamics. |
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| Audience: | Specialized. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0190930608 0190210354 0190210346 |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Janny H.C. Leung. |