Language and Legal Proceedings: Analysing Courtroom Discourse in Cameroon by Endurence Midinette Koumassol DissakeEnglish | PDF,EPUB | 2021 | 131 Pages |ISBN : 303076348X | 3.2 MB
This book investigates language-related problems which arise in courtroom discourse in the Republic of Cameroon, in Central Africa. While Cameroon has over 250 national languages, court cases are conducted in the two official languages: English and French. This is despite the fact that 40% of the adult population is illiterate in these languages, and means that lay litigants often encounter language-related problems during trials.