Corpus Approaches to Language Ideology

Vessey, Rachelle

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“…Refira-se ainda o conjunto de estudos que relaciona os níveis de frequência das palavras com as ideologias transmitidas no discurso. Nesta linha de investigação, defende-se que as frequências lexicais podem ser indiciadoras dos padrões de representação ideológica subjacentes, refletindo as crenças e os valores partilhados por uma determinada comunidade (Vessey 2017).…”

Section: O Léxico Nos Estudos De Frequênciasunclassified

Sobre a permeabilidade do léxico à pandemia : a frequência e os sentidos das palavras no discurso noticioso

Costa¹

2021

Études Romanes De Brno

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O léxico de uma língua é um corpo vivo e dinâmico, permeável a fatores extralinguísticos, que marcam a sociedade num determinado tempo e espaço. Neste trabalho, estudou-se a influência da pandemia Covid-19 no vocabulário do discurso noticioso em Portugal. O corpus discursivo analisado foi constituído por 29 sessões de um noticiário diário da televisão pública portuguesa. Fez-se a comparação entre o discurso veiculado em 2019 e em 2020, após a chegada da pandemia a Portugal. Os resultados mostram a ação do contexto pandémico sobre as palavras usadas no noticiário, no que diz respeito a variações na frequência de ocorrência dos itens lexicais e também no que concerne a sentidos metafóricos que são associados a algumas palavras, para fazer referência à doença. Os resultados são discutidos à luz da investigação já existente sobre frequência lexical e metáfora conceptual no discurso mediático.

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Section: O Léxico Nos Estudos De Frequênciasunclassified

Sobre a permeabilidade do léxico à pandemia : a frequência e os sentidos das palavras no discurso noticioso

Costa¹

2021

Études Romanes De Brno

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“…Language beliefs or ideologies are understood as ideas, values or statuses assigned to languages, their varieties and users. Decoding language beliefs is a necessary step to understand the different orientations adopted towards languages, such as the commodification of languages based on economic rationales, the instrumental view that sees language as a resource for communication, or the affective values attached to languages for cultural identification which are seen as a right, among others (House 2003;Soler and García-Balsà 2019;Vessey 2017). Lastly, language management indicates any effort made from the micro (individual) to the macro (nationstate) level to modify any preexisting language practice or belief.…”

Section: The Linguistic Internationalisation Of Higher Educationmentioning

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EMI, international visibility and competitiveness

Villares

2021

European Journal of Language Policy

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One of the main goals of Spanish higher education is the consolidation of an internationalised university system through international visibility, attractiveness, competitiveness and collaboration. As the literature reports, English plays a relevant role in internationalisation strategies, so this paper examines the relationship between internationalisation and English in institutional documents. Corpus linguistics and critical discourse analysis were used to identify language-related strategies and interpret the language beliefs underlying the promotion of English in the Spanish university context. Results showed that the main language-related strategy was English-medium instruction (EMI) because it promotes the international visibility of universities and helps local students improve their foreign language competence. Measures to support bilingual education were found regarding language training and accreditation. Furthermore, the discourses of globalisation, excellence and employability support the position of English as the international language. Therefore, the introduction of English as another working language in the universities’ linguistic repertoire is widely accepted, although institutional support and constant language training measures are considered essential for the success of internationalisation goals.

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“…Wodak 2006) is required, in order to pay close attention to the linguistic patterns found within policy to reveal the overt, textual traces of standard language ideologies (e.g. Milroy 2001; Vessey 2019). As in my original article, policy is conceived of as a series of ‘mechanisms’ (Shohamy 2006), such as curricula, tests, guidance for teachers, and assessment systems.…”

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Power, policing, and language policy mechanisms in schools: A response to Hudson

Cushing

2020

Lang. Soc.

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This discussion is a response to Richard Hudson's response to my article, ‘The policy and policing of language in schools’ (Cushing 2019). Hudson argues that current education policy in England generally rejects and avoids prescriptivism and sets out to illustrate this in reference to a number of policy documents. As in my original article, I conceive of language policy as p/Political and one way in which language ideologies get turned into practices, through a series of policy mechanisms such as curricula, tests, and guidance for teachers. I show how these mechanisms do not ‘reject’ prescriptivism, but explicitly perpetuate it, and thus act as a system of coercion which can lead teachers into reproducing these ideologies in their practice. I argue that Hudson's argument is limited because of its depoliticised stance and understanding of key sociolinguistic concepts and issues, such as ‘Standard English’, ‘linguistic correctness’, and language education itself. (Language education policy, language ideologies, critical applied linguistics, schools, England)*

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Corpus Approaches to Language Ideology

Cited by 40 publications

References 20 publications

Sobre a permeabilidade do léxico à pandemia : a frequência e os sentidos das palavras no discurso noticioso

Sobre a permeabilidade do léxico à pandemia : a frequência e os sentidos das palavras no discurso noticioso

EMI, international visibility and competitiveness

Power, policing, and language policy mechanisms in schools: A response to Hudson

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