Publications

Publication details [#54997]

Hashim, Azirah and Norizah Hassan. 2011. Language of the legal process: An analysis of interactions in the Syariah court. Multilingua 30 (3,4) : 333–356.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

code-switching | courtroom | legalese | question | religion

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This study examines data from Syariah court trials in Malaysia for the strategic lexical choices and particular linguistic resources, including code-switching, via which utterances are constructed as questions and how questions are sequenced in this specific context.