Zakeera Docrat, Russell H Kaschula, Monwabisi K Ralarala

Broschiertes Buch

A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond

Beschreibung

A Handbook on Legal Languages and the Quest for Linguistic Equality in South Africa and Beyond is an interdisciplinary publication located in the discipline of forensic linguistics/ language and law. This handbook includes varying comparative African and global case studies on the use of language(s) in courtroom discourse and higher education institutions: Kenya; Morocco; Nigeria; Australia; Belgium Canada and India. These African and global case studies form the backdrop for the critique of the monolingual English language of record policy for South African courts, the core of this handbook, discussed in relation to case law and the beleaguered legal interpretation profession. This handbook argues that linguistic transformation and decolonisation of South Africa's legal and higher education systems needs to be undertaken where legal practitioners are linguistically equipped to litigate in a bilingual/ multilingual courtroom that enables access to justice for the majority of African language speaking litigants, enforcing their constitutional language rights.

Autor

Dr Zakeera Docrat is an Andrew W Mellon Foundation post-doctoral research fellow in forensic linguistics (language and law) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), based in the Department of African Language Studies. Dr Docrat was Rhodes University's first post-doctoral research fellow in forensic linguistics (language and law), under the auspices of the NRF SARChI Chair in the Intellectualisation of African Languages, Multilingualism and Education. Dr Docrat holds the following degrees: BA, BA Honours (cum laude), LLB, MA (cum laude) and a PhD. She has presented at international and national conferences including: The International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL) conferences in Portugal and Australia; and at the World Congress of African Linguists (WOCAL) conference in Morocco. She has published widely in accredited national and international journals and books. She has penned opinion pieces in several press forums. As an expert, she has been interviewed on national media. She is a member of the International Association of Forensic Linguists (IAFL), the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) and Vice-Chairperson of the Indigenous Languages Action Forum (ILAF). She developed and co-lectured the first course module in African Forensic Linguistics at Rhodes University's (RU) School of Languages and Literatures. Dr Docrat was one of the Mail & Guardian 200 Young South Africans in 2018 (Justice and Law category) and received numerous awards, including most outstanding Master's Thesis (African Languages Association of South Africa) and the Women in Science Award - Albertina Sisulu Doctoral Fellowship (Department of Science and Technology), recognising her outstanding academic and research ability.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sun Press
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9781991201263
• ISBN-10: 1991201265
• Artikelnr.: 62063838