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100 1 _aMassier, Ab.
240 1 0 _aVan "recht" naar "hukum".
_lEnglish
245 1 4 _aThe voice of the law in transition :
_bIndonesian jurists and their languages, 1915-2000 /
_cAb Massier ; translated from the Dutch by Michaela Wouters.
264 1 _aLeiden :
_bKILTV Press,
_c2008.
300 _a1 online resource (xxii, 301 pages) :
_billustrations, portraits.
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde,
_x1572-1892 ;
_v235
500 _aTranslation of the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Rijksuniversiteit te Leiden, 2003) originally presented under the title: Van recht naar hukum : indonesische juristen en hun taal, 1915-2000.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [259]-287) and index.
505 0 0 _tPreliminary Material /
_rAb Massier --
_tCHAPTER I: Legal language in the limelight /
_rAb Massier --
_tCHAPTER II: The language of the law /
_rAb Massier --
_tCHAPTER III: Dutch as the legal language /
_rAb Massier --
_tCHAPTER IV: Indonesian as the legal language /
_rAb Massier --
_tCHAPTER V: Conclusion /
_rAb Massier --
_tBibliography /
_rAb Massier --
_tIndex /
_rAb Massier.
506 _aAvailable to subscribing member institutions only.
520 _aIn the literature on Indonesian legal history, the role of language has been paid scant attention. Even the replacement of Dutch by Indonesian as the official language of the law, surely a major event for the work of Indonesian jurists, has not been closely examined. Yet, since the early 1970s, legal usage and terminology have been the topic of a steady stream of highly critical publications by linguists and, remarkably, by jurists as well. Their criticism is focused on the heterogeneity of law language and terminology, and the deviation of legal usage from the official standard language. Government measures (language courses, law dictionaries) have not allayed this criticism. This study exposes two fundamental defects in the government measures and in the criticism itself. Firstly, they are grounded in an instrumental approach to language, an approach that sees language as a mere tool of the jurist, and as secondary in importance to the conceptual world that is considered law’s core business. Secondly, they greatly underestimate the impact of the declining knowledge of Dutch upon the development of Indonesian law language. Massier argues that the law must be viewed as inextricably bound up with the language in which it is formulated. Consequently, legal training and practice are examined in this study in terms of language behaviour and conventions, of learning, writing and speaking the languages of the law. The voice of the law in transition provides a language history of Indonesian law and its practitioners.
650 0 _aLaw
_zIndonesia
_xLanguage.
650 0 _aLawyers
_zIndonesia
_xLanguage.
650 0 _aLanguage policy
_zIndonesia.
650 0 _aDutch language
_xSocial aspects
_zIndonesia.
710 2 _aKoninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (Netherlands)
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_tThe Voice of the Law in Transition: Indonesian Jurists and Their Languages, 1915-2000
_dLeiden, Boston : BRILL, 2008,
_z9789067182713
830 0 _aVerhandelingen van het Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde
_v235.
830 0 _aKITLV Press Special E-Book Collection, 2007-2012, ISBN: 9789004248687.
856 4 _zDOI:
_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004253964
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_d47570