Idéologies et pratiques du multilinguisme au québec : luttes et mutations dans un site de la nouvelle économie

Kahn, Emmanuel; Heller, Monica

doi:10.3917/ls.118.0043

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“…Firstly, in sociolinguistics and translation studies, the article offers an empirically‐grounded account of language and translation policies in a global organisation. It contributes to a growing body of research on language ideologies and multilingualism in NGOs and INGOs in the global political economy (Codó and Garrido ; Kahn and Heller ; Muehlmann and Duchêne ; Pujolar ) and on the sociolinguistics of globalisation (Blommaert ; Blommaert, Collins and Slembrouck ; Coupland ; Heller ; Maryns ). Secondly, in international relations, development studies and political science, the article contributes to ongoing debates on the legitimacy of INGOs, the paradox between INGOs’ ethos and their often corporate management style, and INGOs’ efforts to bridge the divide between the global North and South (Demars and Dijkzeul ; Lang ; Rubenstein ; Yanacopulos ).…”

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Incorporating translation into sociolinguistic research: Translation policy in an international non‐governmental organisation

Tesseur

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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This article explores aspects of translation, multilingualism and language policy in the field of transnational civil society. By focusing on translation policies at Amnesty International, an international non‐governmental organisation that performs a key role in global governance, this article seeks to contribute to a globalisation‐sensitive sociolinguistics. It argues that combining a sociolinguistic approach – more precisely linguistic ethnography – with translation studies leads to an increased understanding of the language practices under study. Furthermore, the article calls for more interdisciplinary research, stating that there is space for sociolinguistics and translation studies to contribute to research in international relations and development studies by highlighting the role of multilingualism and challenging the traditionally powerful position of English in transnational civil society.

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Incorporating translation into sociolinguistic research: Translation policy in an international non‐governmental organisation

Tesseur

2017

Journal of Sociolinguistics

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“…Tour guides, people setting up tourism sites, and people managing language on tourism sites all do added-value language work by making choices about language elements that authenticate the tourist experience (Moïse et al 2006, Pujolar 2006, Jaworski & Thurlow 2010, Pujolar & Jones 2012. Working out the relations and tensions among code values is an ongoing workplace process (e.g., in nongovernmental organizations and in media production; Kahn & Heller 2006, Lamarre & Lamarre 2006 and appears in the compartmentalization of communicative tasks aboard a Canadian naval vessel (Daveluy 2012). Even deeply politicized language revival can be revalued to suit a neoliberal order, as with Taylorizing Basque-language planning for bilingual businesses (Urla 2012).…”

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Language Management/Labor

Urciuoli

LaDousa

2013

Annu. Rev. Anthropol.

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AN42CH11-Urciuoli ARI 14 July 2013 12:20 Register: a language variety specific to a set of social actors engaged in some defining form of interaction (social, occupational, etc.) Enregisterment: the process by which registers continually develop from preexisting registers Metasemiotic: general semiotic (interpretive) principles organizing specific acts of cultural action and interpretation WHAT MAKES LANGUAGE INTO LABOR? As any good Marxist knows, what counts as labor is the place of work in an economic order. Under capitalism, workers exchange their labor for wages. In an earlier capitalism, wage labor generally went into the production of material goods, which were sold as commodities. Work, then, was generally thought of as physical labor and commodities as material goods. Under contemporary conditions of capitalism [or late capitalism or, after Harvey (1989), post-Fordism], the work may take the form of (rather stylized) interactive linguistic practices, as might the commodities. The difference lies in whether that practice is imagined as an act of communication emerging from social relations or imagined as what Cameron (2000a) calls communication skills, a form of linguistic capital (Bourdieu 1991, Irvine 1989) valued in relation to its workplace utility (making such knowledge a specialized instance of cultural capital). In short, whether linguistic practices are social interaction or job skills depends on whether they are performed as labor and the extent of the speaker's agency in their production. Insofar as people sell their labor power, and insofar as the value of their labor power depends on their knowledge of particular linguistic practices, such practices become commodified (Heller 2010a,b; Heller & Duchêne 2012, Duchêne et al. 2013b). The commodification of language as labor, like other dimensions of the commodification of language, is nested firmly in the conditions of contemporary neoliberal capitalism (Harvey 2005) that structure the places and options available to workers. Language as neoliberal labor further presupposes the reimagining of the person of the worker as an assemblage of commodifiable elements, i.e., a bundle of skills (Urciuoli 2008). Language as a form of labor (like language as commodity) has material dimensions (Shankar & Cavanaugh 2012, pp. 360-62). If people are paid for language work, what constitutes work is likely to be objectified, especially when such work is considered a skill set subject to monitoring and assessment. Linguistic practice as a form of cultural capital is convertible to economic capital: People get paid for doing it. If they get paid for doing it under conditions that demonstrate an authentic or classy performance, their linguistic practices accumulate symbolic capital that can further maximize the conversion to economic capital (Bourdieu 1986). Recent work on branding (Moore 2003, Foster 2007, Meneley 2007, Manning 2010) examines the discursive work involved in the provision of market value to commodities, a process in which semiotic and material value ar...

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“…In recent years, issues of language and translation in the work of INGOs have started to be raised in various humanities disciplines, such as disaster management, development studies, sociolinguistics and translation studies (Codó and Garrido 2010;Footitt, Crack, and Tesseur 2020;Garrido 2017;Kahn and Heller 2006;O'Brien et al 2018;O'Brien and Federici 2019;Roth 2019;Tesseur 2018). Research has found that INGOs often do not plan for language and translation needs in their international development and humanitarian operations, and that they tend to opt for ad-hoc translation solutions in which multilingual staff or volunteers often act as translators or interpreters to ensure successful communication between NGO staff and local communities (Federici et al 2019;Footitt et al 2020).…”

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Translation as inclusion?

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2021

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International NGOs (INGOs) are important agents in delivering the UN’s sustainable development agenda, but their linguistic practices have received little attention in the field of language policy and planning. This article aims to add new insights to the field by exploring the link between INGOs’ organisational value of inclusiveness and their institutional approaches to translation. It does so through a case study of Oxfam GB’s and Tearfund’s translation policy documents. The analysis reveals that the policy documents focus on written translation into a handful of lingua francas. In other words, they largely overlook the need for interpreting and translation from and into local languages. In addition, the policy documents do not make any overt links between principles of (linguistic) inclusiveness and the need for translation. The article summarises the advantages and drawbacks of creating a translation policy, and provides guidance on linking translation policy more overtly to values of inclusiveness.

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Idéologies et pratiques du multilinguisme au québec : luttes et mutations dans un site de la nouvelle économie

Cited by 7 publications

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Incorporating translation into sociolinguistic research: Translation policy in an international non‐governmental organisation

Incorporating translation into sociolinguistic research: Translation policy in an international non‐governmental organisation

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Translation as inclusion?

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