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Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members: a corpus linguistic investigation of the United Nations’ General Debates (1970–2016)

Language policy, 2020-11, Vol.19 (4), p.549-573

Springer Nature B.V. 2020 ;Springer Nature B.V. 2020. ;ISSN: 1568-4555 ;EISSN: 1573-1863 ;DOI: 10.1007/s10993-020-09542-4

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  • Title:
    Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members: a corpus linguistic investigation of the United Nations’ General Debates (1970–2016)
  • Author: McEntee-Atalianis, Lisa ; Vessey, Rachelle
  • Subjects: Activism ; Applied Linguistics ; Computational Linguistics ; Corpus analysis ; Corpus linguistics ; Debate ; Discourse Analysis ; International Organizations ; Language Attitudes ; Language Education ; Language ideologies ; Language Planning ; Language policy ; Language Usage ; Linguistics ; Multilingualism ; Organizations (Groups) ; Original Paper ; Persuasive Discourse ; Policy Analysis ; Political Science ; Politics ; Second Languages ; Social Sciences ; Sociolinguistics
  • Is Part Of: Language policy, 2020-11, Vol.19 (4), p.549-573
  • Description: Supranational and international organisations have long experienced difficulties in implementing multilingual policies, and this is, in part, due to a lack of activism on language matters by their membership (McEntee-Atalianis forthcoming; Kruse and Ammon, in: Chua (ed) Unintended language planning in a globalising world: multiple levels of players at work, De Gruyter Open, Berlin, pp 39–56, 2018). The aim of this paper is not only to highlight the importance of investigating language ideology within the field of organisational language policy, but also to scrutinise the language ideologies particular to an influential body of institutional members. Using the United Nations as a site of exploration, and the UN General Debates Corpus (Mikhaylov et al. in Res Politics 4(2):1–9, 2017) as a dataset, this paper traces if and how issues of language have preoccupied the deliberations and work of UN member states over the course of 46 years, and if these discussions align with organisational policy. Using corpus linguistics, the paper maps the ideological landscape and language policy discourses across time, identifying a paucity of discussion over almost five decades. The paper argues that attention to the absence of references to language problems/language policy in the organisation is just as important as an exploration of language problems themselves. If organisations wish to make changes to language policies, and/or prioritise policy implementation, they would do well to attend more closely to the language ideologies of their membership and/or to reasons for their apparent inattention to language issues.
  • Publisher: Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1568-4555
    EISSN: 1573-1863
    DOI: 10.1007/s10993-020-09542-4
  • Source: Education Resources Information Center (ERIC)
    AUTh Library subscriptions: ProQuest Central
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