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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (321 pages).
Notes:Previously issued in print: 2019.
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