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Publication details [#56455]

Leung, Janny. 2012. Statutory interpretation in multilingual jurisdictions: typology and trends. Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development 33 (5) : 481–495.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

conceptualization | interpretation | language use | legal text | multilingualism

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

This study argues that legal multilingualism has provoked a shift in interpretation dynamics and catered a law conceptualisation, distant from the text that formulates it, thus forcing us to reassess the language-law relationship.