
Published online:
20 June 2013
Published in print:
21 July 2009
Online ISBN:
9780804772358
Print ISBN:
9780804761642
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Social Demography of the Cantonese Courtrooms Social Demography of the Cantonese Courtrooms
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Bilingualism and the Preservation of the Common Law Bilingualism and the Preservation of the Common Law
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Cantonese in the Hong Kong Legal System Cantonese in the Hong Kong Legal System
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A Different Atmosphere A Different Atmosphere
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The Precariousness of the Statement-and-Reply Structure The Precariousness of the Statement-and-Reply Structure
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Disrupting the Statement-And-Reply Structure of Cross-Examination Disrupting the Statement-And-Reply Structure of Cross-Examination
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Reversing the Rules Reversing the Rules
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Breaking of Rules Breaking of Rules
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Playing with the Rules Playing with the Rules
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Social Creativity in Language Social Creativity in Language
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Wrestling with the Common Law in Cantonese Wrestling with the Common Law in Cantonese
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Chapter
6 Cantonese Courtrooms: Formalism in Flux
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Pages
163–200
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Published:July 2009
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Ng, Kwai Hang, 'Cantonese Courtrooms: Formalism in Flux', The Common Law in Two Voices: Language, Law, and the Postcolonial Dilemma in Hong Kong (Redwood City, CA , 2009; online edn, Stanford Scholarship Online, 20 June 2013), https://doi.org/10.11126/stanford/9780804761642.003.0006, accessed 29 Apr. 2025.
Abstract
This chapter shows that the interactional order in Cantonese courtrooms is inchoate and flexible. At times, it allows litigants to bring the constitutive dispositions of everyday life into the courtroom or to deploy storytelling practices that situate their personal experiences within local contexts. The discussion considers the social demography of the Cantonese courtrooms, bilingualism and the preservation of the common law, Cantonese in the Hong Kong legal system, and cross-examination in the Cantonese courtrooms.
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