Author: A. Massier
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004253963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In 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.
The Voice of the Law in Transition
Author: A. Massier
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004253963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In 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.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004253963
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
In 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.
Nurturing Indonesia
Author: Hans Pols
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This examination of the formation of the Indonesian medical profession reveals the relationship between medicine and decolonisation, and its importance to understanding Asian history.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108424570
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 307
Book Description
This examination of the formation of the Indonesian medical profession reveals the relationship between medicine and decolonisation, and its importance to understanding Asian history.
Planter and Peasant
Author: Karl J. Pelzer
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004287159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004287159
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Library of Congress
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Catalogs, Union
Languages : en
Pages : 786
Book Description
National Union Catalog
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Union Catalogue of Documentary Materials on Southeast Asia: Other countries in Asia
Author: Ajia Keizai Kenkyūjo (Japan)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia, Southeastern
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Zōsho mokuroku
Author: Ajia Keizai Kenkyūjo (Japan)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic history
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
資料月報
Author: アジア経済研究所 (Japan)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Planter and Peasant
Author: Karl Josef Pelzer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Myth of the Lazy Native
Author: Syed Hussein Alatas
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136276416
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Myth of the Lazy Native is Syed Hussein Alatas’ widely acknowledged critique of the colonial construction of Malay, Filipino and Javanese natives from the 16th to the 20th century. Drawing on the work of Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge, Alatas analyses the origins and functions of such myths in the creation and reinforcement of colonial ideology and capitalism. The book constitutes in his own words: ‘an effort to correct a one-sided colonial view of the Asian native and his society’ and will be of interest to students and scholars of colonialism, post-colonialism, sociology and South East Asian Studies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136276416
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 277
Book Description
The Myth of the Lazy Native is Syed Hussein Alatas’ widely acknowledged critique of the colonial construction of Malay, Filipino and Javanese natives from the 16th to the 20th century. Drawing on the work of Karl Mannheim and the sociology of knowledge, Alatas analyses the origins and functions of such myths in the creation and reinforcement of colonial ideology and capitalism. The book constitutes in his own words: ‘an effort to correct a one-sided colonial view of the Asian native and his society’ and will be of interest to students and scholars of colonialism, post-colonialism, sociology and South East Asian Studies.