Richard Powell
List of John Benjamins publications in which Richard Powell is involved.
Articles
2012 Chapter 14. English in Southeast Asian law English in Southeast Asia: Features, policy and language in use, Low, Ee-Ling and Azirah Hashim (eds.), pp. 241–266 | Chapter
To a large extent, the importance of English in a given Southeast Asian legal system reflects the extent to which the polity in which it is situated is perceived as an ESL rather than an EFL society. Thus Singapore, Malaysia, Myanmar and Hong Kong SAR, which were British colonies, Brunei, a former… read more
2009 The roles of English in Southeast Asian legal systems World Englishes – Problems, Properties and Prospects: Selected papers from the 13th IAWE conference, Hoffmann, Thomas and Lucia Siebers (eds.), pp. 155–178 | Article
The traditional division of Southeast Asian legal systems into anglophone common law jurisdictions and non-anglophone civil law systems has lost some of its validity in recent decades. On the one hand, postcolonial language planning has brought a much greater role for local languages in several… read more
2008 Bilingual courtrooms: In the interests of justice? Dimensions of Forensic Linguistics, Gibbons, John and M. Teresa Turell (eds.), pp. 131–159 | Article
Bilingual courtrooms are generally associated with the use of interpreted oral testimony to support monolingual judicial proceedings. Yet several postcolonial jurisdictions accord de jure or de facto standing to more than one language in court. The most studied is Malaysia, but the literature is… read more