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Author Massier, A

Title The Voice of the Law in Transition : Indonesian Jurists and Their Languages, 1915-2000
Published Leiden : BRILL, 2008

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Description 1 online resource (323 pages)
Series Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
Verhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde.
Contents THE VOICE OF THE L AW IN TRANSITION; THE VOICE OF THE LAW IN TRANSITION Indonesian jurists and their languages 1915-2000; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Preface; Preface to the original (Dutch) version; Introduction; CHAPTER I Legal language in the limelight; CHAPTER II The language of the law; CHAPTER III Dutch as the legal language; CHAPTER IV Indonesian as the legal language; CHAPTER V Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Summary In the literature on Indonesian legal history, the role of language has been paid scant attention. Even the replacement of Dutch by Indonesian as the official language of the law, surely a major event for the work of Indonesian jurists, has not been closely examined. Yet, since the early 1970s, legal usage and terminology have been the topic of a steady stream of highly critical publications by linguists and, remarkably, by jurists as well. Their criticism is focused on the heterogeneity of law language and terminology, and the deviation of legal usage from the official standard language. Gove
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Subject Law -- Indonesia -- Language
Practice of law -- Indonesia -- Language
Language policy -- Indonesia
Dutch language -- Social aspects -- Indonesia
LAW -- Military.
Dutch language -- Social aspects
Language policy
Law -- Language
Practice of law -- Language
Indonesia
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789004253964
9004253963