Saw Tiong Guan
Biographic Data
| ID | 9178985 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Saw Tiong Guan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Saw Tiong |
| FAMILY NAME | Guan |
| SIGNATURE | GUAN S T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9870-0691 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Judges’ perspectives on Malaysia’s bilingual legal system
Use-based Englishes may act as professional gatekeepers and working languages in Asian societies even where other languages of wider communication are prioritised. Legalese is widely regarded as particularly resistant to societal changes, and in Malaysian law English remains indispensable half a century after Malay became the official medium for West Malaysia, with exonormative acrolects retaining professional prestige. However, legal practitione…
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Judges’ perspectives on Malaysia’s bilingual legal system
Use-based Englishes may act as professional gatekeepers and working languages in Asian societies even where other languages of wider communication are prioritised. Legalese is widely regarded as particularly resistant to societal changes, and in Malaysian law English remains indispensable half a century after Malay became the official medium for West Malaysia, with exonormative acrolects retaining professional prestige. However, legal practitione…
Asian Studies and History (1 work) · Economic Justice (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (1 work) · Linguistics (1 work) · Malay (1 work) · Multilingual Education and Policy (1 work) · Political science (1 work) · Prestige (1 work) · Public relations (1 work)