Law? Language? The diversity of language

Author: Wang Jie
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Publish Date: 2006-10-01
Features: This book is a collection of papers from the 9th International Conference on Law and Language, consisting of three languages: Chinese, English, and French. It includes 27 articles such as: "The System of Legal Language and the Specificity of Language: Examples Related to Legal Translation in Canada," "The Constitution and Linguistic Diversity in Morocco," "Linguistic Diversity as a Fundamental Right: Opportunities or Traps for Ethnic Minorities in the EU?" "The Status of Local and Non-local Languages in Switzerland," and more. The book presented to readers now is the crystallization of academic achievements from the 9th International Conference on Law and Language. Linguistic diversity is a characteristic of world linguistic life. Among the family members of diverse languages, regardless of the size of the language, they should all be legally protected to ensure individual linguistic freedom and ethnic linguistic equality. How to advance the role of law in serving linguistic rights and how language serves legislation and judicial processes are issues that have increasingly drawn attention in the world today, sparking the research interest of politicians, legal scholars, and linguists. The conference gathered experts and scholars in these fields to discuss the following twelve topics:
(1) The relationship between language rights, linguistic equality, and linguistic diversity, as well as the ways to protect language rights and achieve linguistic equality in a diverse linguistic context;
(2) The characteristics of individual and collective language rights;
(3) Protecting the language of minorities;
(4) Types of language legislation;
(5) Legal documents on international language rights;
(6) Research on language legislation and language policy in a linguistic diversity context;
(7) Research on issues arising from language and law in multilingual societies;
(8) The impact of sociocultural factors on linguistic diversity and the resulting linguistic and legal issues;
(9) Research on legal language and the discipline construction of legal linguistics;
(10) The issue of linguistic standardization in legal texts;
(11) Linguistic issues in the translation of legal texts;
(12) The application of language and writing in legal activities.