Interpreting for the minority

Leung, Ester S.M.

doi:10.1075/aals.5.13leu

In:Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics
Edited by John Gibbons and M. Teresa Turell
[AILA Applied Linguistics Series 5] 2008
► pp. 197–211

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Interpreting for the minority

Ester S.M. Leung | Hong Kong Baptist University

Published online: 21 November 2008

https://doi.org/10.1075/aals.5.13leu

Legal interpreting is more than a service provided to linguistic minorities who do not speak Cantonese (the majority language in Hong Kong), sometimes English interpreting is also a mechanism and establishment to maintain control, by retaining former colonial practices. Despite expectation of change in the legal field in Hong Kong after it was handed back to Mainland China, this study reveals that legal interpreting as a means of providing the linguistic human right to have access to court is a myth that is perpetuated in the still intellectually colonized city.

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