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.

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绘制组织成员的语言意识形态：联合国一般性辩论的语料库语言调查（1970-2016）

超国家和国际组织长期以来在实施多语言政策方面遇到困难，部分原因是其成员在语言问题上缺乏积极性（McEntee-Atalianis 即将出版；Kruse 和 Ammon，在：Chua (ed) Unintended language全球化世界中的规划：工作中的多层次球员，德格鲁伊特公开赛，柏林，第 39-56 页，2018 年）。本文的目的不仅是强调在组织语言政策领域内调查语言意识形态的重要性，而且还要仔细审查具有影响力的机构成员所特有的语言意识形态。使用联合国作为探索地点，并使用联合国一般性辩论语料库（Mikhaylov 等人在 Res Politics 4(2):1–9, 2017）作为数据集，本文追溯了 46 年来语言问题是否以及如何成为联合国成员国的审议和工作的焦点，以及这些讨论是否与组织政策保持一致。该论文使用语料库语言学绘制了跨时间的意识形态景观和语言政策话语，确定了近五年来讨论的缺乏。该论文认为，关注组织中没有提及语言问题/语言政策与探索语言问题本身同样重要。如果组织希望更改语言政策，和/或优先考虑政策实施，他们最好更密切地关注其成员的语言意识形态和/或他们明显不注意语言问题的原因。