ABSTRACT

This article aims to examine how language policy affects the reconstruction of academic identities in a time of rapid and significant changes in contemporary higher education. Through a narrative approach, we explore how a top-down language policy chaperones the process of redefining the perceptions of our positions as academic faculty working at Qatar University, recognized as the world’s most international university. Three main themes emerged from data analysis: language identities; narratives of exclusion and self-exclusion; and working in a Third Space. We conclude that the linguistic status quo poorly serves university staff in contemporary higher education and maintain that language policies must be aligned with, and better reflect, the sociolinguistic realities of university life in a global era.

摘要

本文旨在探讨在当代高等教育迅速而显着变化的时代，语言政策如何影响学术身份的重建。通过叙述方法，我们探索了自上而下的语言政策如何引导我们重新定义我们作为在卡塔尔大学工作的教职员工的看法的过程，卡塔尔大学被公认为世界上最国际化的大学。数据分析中出现了三个主要主题：语言身份；排斥和自我排斥的叙述；并在第三空间工作。我们得出的结论是，语言现状对当代高等教育中的大学教职员工不利，并认为语言政策必须与全球时代大学生活的社会语言现实保持一致并更好地反映。