ABSTRACT

Corpus planning has attracted attention ever since Deborah Cameron's seminal Verbal Hygiene (1995). However, evaluations of corpus planning aimed at addressing linguistic discrimination have been surprisingly scarce. Because corpus planning costs energy, time and money, evaluations are important for future actions. This study discusses how an evaluation of corpus planning can be conducted by performing a detailed, critical and empirical analysis of a limited Swedish language policy action aimed at addressing linguistic discrimination. The results show that, although the policy action was successful in terms of lexical change, the change was superficial, since the desired shift in focus, from individual/group to environment, occurred to only a very limited extent in the selected texts. From this analysis, I argue that there are three significant matters to attend to when evaluating corpus planning for these situations. The first is that a meaningful corpus should be created, preferably one comprising symmetrical texts from both before and after implementation of the policy. Additionally, the research questions that are formulated should be narrow enough to be operational. Finally, quantitative and qualitative methods should be combined to ensure a broad understanding of the outcomes of the corpus planning.

摘要

自黛博拉·卡梅伦（Deborah Cameron）开创性的口头卫生以来，语料库的规划就引起了人们的关注。（1995）。但是，对旨在解决语言歧视的语料库计划的评估却令人惊讶地缺乏。由于语料库计划会花费精力，时间和金钱，因此评估对于将来的行动很重要。这项研究讨论了如何通过对旨在解决语言歧视的有限瑞典语言政策行动进行详细，批判和实证分析来进行语料库计划评估。结果表明，尽管就词汇变化而言，政策行动是成功的，但这种变化是肤浅的，因为在选定的案文中，从个人/群体到环境的期望焦点转移只发生在非常有限的范围内。根据这一分析，我认为在评估针对这些情况的语料库计划时，需要考虑三个重要事项。第一个是应该创建有意义的语料库，最好是一个包含政策实施前后的对称文本的语料库。此外，所提出的研究问题应足够狭窄才能进行操作。最后，应该结合使用定量和定性方法，以确保对语料库计划的结果有广泛的了解。