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Dissake, Endurence Midinette Koumassol – Language Policy, 2022
Judicial discourse can grant or deprive liberty to litigants. It is, therefore, important to ensure fair hearing during trials and even more as courtrooms have become multilingual settings. In the Court of First Instance of Bafoussam, French (one of the official languages of Cameroon) often come into contact with more than 250 national languages.…
Descriptors: Language Proficiency, Court Litigation, Judges, French
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Bokhorst-Heng, Wendy D.; Silver, Rita Elaine – Language Policy, 2017
The basic structure and rhetoric of national language policy in multilingual Singapore has remained essentially unchanged since independence with four official languages positioned within the national quadrilingual framework and used in all public spheres, and individual bilingualism encouraged in the private sphere. However, also since…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Language Usage, Public Policy, Official Languages