Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis
Biographic Data
| ID | 1095228 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lisa Mcentee-Atalianis |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lisa |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcentee-Atalianis |
| SIGNATURE | MCENTEE-ATALIANIS L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0939-4953 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 23 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
A tripartite model examining language ideologies
The concepts of ‘dangerous’, ‘celebratory’, and ‘hegemonic’ multilingualism provide a valuable heuristic to explore language ideologies within supranational organizations like the United Nations. Adopting a critical stance in relation to the functions and values assigned to multilingualism and applying corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this study examines three ideological manifestations: verbalizations, metapragmatic acts, and linguistic pract…
Agency and structure in language policy
Over the past two decades, there has been increasing focus in language policy and planning (LPP) research on the role of agency. Along with this foregrounding of agency, there has been a tendency to background social structures, including the interplay of structure and agency around LPP processes. Accordingly, drawing on findings from the analysis of recent reports produced by the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit pertaining to multilingual po…
Putting negotiation on a 'principal-ed' footing
From offline to online stigma resistance
This paper is the first to address the impact of gendered, cultural and religious discourses on an under-researched subaltern group of infertile Muslim women bloggers. Taking a small story and case study approach, the analysis focuses on interactivity and positioning ( Bamberg & Georgakopoulou, 2008 , Georgakopoulou, 2008 ) in one woman’s stories as she works hard to address normative expectations and dominant discourses which abound in Muslim so…
Using corpus linguistics to investigate agency and benign neglect in organisational language policy and planning
This article responds to recent calls to investigate the role of agents and the connections between layers of agency in the development and implementation of language policy and planning (LPP). Using a corpus linguistic and discursive approach to language policy, we identify interventions made in plenary sessions by Secretary-Generals (SGs) and Member States (MSs) at the United Nations when discussing language issues over a period of 46 years (19…
Multilingual repertoires and identity in social media
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study explores the linguistic resources used on Facebook (FB) by six resettled Syrian refugees in the United Kingdom. It investigates the multilingual varieties and scripts employed, their discursive functions and their role in the construction of identity/ies. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs descriptive linguistic and discourse-centred online ethnographic approaches. These are c…
Language and identity
“Identity” as an operating variable and/or explanatory concept continues to pervade sociolinguistic scholarship. This article reflects on and discusses the continuing dominance of post-structural and social constructionist accounts of identity and debates whether recent work has led to an “unrestrained embracing of speaker agency” (Bell 2017: 592) with a comparative neglect of social structure, or whether this work is contributing to a more nuanc…
Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members
Constraints of hierarchy on meso-actors’ agency
This paper contributes to recent discussions of levels of agency in Language Policy and Planning (LPP) research. It specifically aims to understand the role and importance of meso-level actors as arbiters of policy implementation. It argues that, whilst understanding of both macro- and micro-agency has grown over the past decade, little is understood about the experience of meso-level agents. The paper seeks to address this by focussing on the LP…
Measuring Diversity in Multilingual Communication
This article develops new indices to measure linguistic diversity. It is new in two respects: firstly, existing indices to measure the probability that in a given multilingual context communication among people speaking different languages can successfully occur are based on the assumption that communication is possible only if at least one single language is shared. This study develops new indices that describe the probability that people with d…
“Leave no one behind”
In September 2015 the United Nations (UN) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering an internationally agreed blueprint for economic, environmental and social development. However those most in need and specifically targeted by the SDGs face significant barriers in accessing information and knowledge about the goals and sustainability in a language or medium that can be understood. Drawing on previous research on the UN’s language …
Narratives of sex-segregated professional identities
Building on recent investigations of the role of gendered discourses in constructing and maintaining sex-segregated professions this article highlights the significance of small story analysis for the identification of positioning acts which function as rhetorical warrants for career choices and trajectories. It analyses small stories told by Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and investigates the tensions expressed in the negotiation and perf…
Leave no one behind”
In September 2015 the United Nations (UN) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering an internationally agreed blueprint for economic, environmental and social development. However those most in need and specifically targeted by the SDGs face significant barriers in accessing information and knowledge about the goals and sustainability in a language or medium that can be understood. Drawing on previous research on the UN’s language …
A network model of language policy and planning
This article contributes to recent critical discussion of ‘agency’ in language policy and planning (LPP) research and practice. It argues that whilst scholars have widened their purview to consider the impact of individual actors on LPP in different contexts, the field has not developed or embraced theoretical and methodological frameworks which satisfactorily model or investigate the network of actor impact on LPP. This article analyzes the curr…
Networked Identities
Transnational dynamics have significantly changed established notions of communities and belonging. Transnational perspectives however remain marginal in research on European identities which has typically conceptualised the latter as emerging from and relying on essential national referents. Drawing on data derived from members of a transnational organisation promoting civic participation in Europe, this paper challenges existing representations…
Order in ‘polylogue’
Examination of negotiation as a formal and informal interactional activity within institutional contexts has increasingly become prevalent in the literature (see for example Arminen 2005; Firth 1995a, 1995b). Many of these studies have focused on a fine-grained microanalysis of the local determination of meaning of utterances and their sequential organization invoking Conversation Analysis as a methodological tool in monolingual settings. Few cro…
Code-switching and pausing
This study considers code-switching (CS) and pausing in two sociolinguistically distinct groups in London and Cyprus, bilingual in Greek-Cypriot Dialect (GCD) and English. The characteristics of their speech are examined both in monolingual and bilingual modes (Grosjean, 2001). It was hypothesised that in London Greek-Cypriots, where CS is a ‘default mode’, pausing behaviour would be affected by the same factors as in monolinguals, but not by CS.…
The value of adopting multiple approaches and methodologies in the investigation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality
The concept of ‘ethnolinguistic vitality’ (EV) has received variable acceptance and support within academic investigations since its introduction by Giles, Bourhis & Taylor (1977). It has especially proven to be a valuable heuristic in studies of language maintenance and shift. However, the reliability and validity of the instruments used to investigate EV, especially questionnaires used to test subjective vitality, have proven to be more problem…
Language Attitudes, Shift and the Ethnolinguistic Vitality of the Greek Orthodox Community in Istanbul
The Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul has long existed as a bilingual Greek and Turkish grouping and remains largely unstudied. The sharp decrease in the size of this community to approximately 1000 members raises questions as to the maintenance of Greek in this setting. This study attempts to establish the current status of Greek in the community and explores key sociolinguistic and sociopsychological parameters relevant to its potential surv…
Geostrategies of Interlingualism
Fettes (2004) asserts that ‘politico-strategies’ of languages are no longer viable frameworks for ‘national and community policy’. Rather, he proposes the development of ‘geostrategies of interlingualism’, i.e. linguistic strategies which promote international communication equitably and efficiently, whilst respecting and ensuring language maintenance and pluralism. He asserts that the future development of interlingual communication will depend …
Language Attitudes and Use in a Transplanted Setting
In this paper we explore language attitudes and use in the Greek Cypriot community in London, England. Our study is based on an earlier survey carried out in Nicosia, Cyprus and we compare attitudes to language and reported language use in the two communities. We thereby highlight the significance of sociolinguistic variables on similar groups of speakers. We further extend our investigation to include codeswitching practices in the London commun…
The impact of English in postcolonial, postmodern Cyprus
The role and potential hegemonic affect of the English language in postmodern and postcolonial nations continues to dominate discourse internationally. Recent studies in Europe have highlighted the benefits and costs of English as a lingua franca and have also described changing patterns of use within communities, by underlining its potential dominance at the expense of national varieties, leading to the reformulation of national, social and cult…
Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community
An investigation of reported attitudes and language use in Cyprus has enabled an interpretation of social conditions affording status and 'price' to products available in the linguistic market-place. It has identified boundaries of social division and provided reasons for the coexistence of multiple linguistic codes. An empirical investigation, with recourse to the theory of practice (Bourdieu, 1997), identifies and accounts for the use of nation…
Language Attitudes and Use in a Transplanted Setting
In this paper we explore language attitudes and use in the Greek Cypriot community in London, England. Our study is based on an earlier survey carried out in Nicosia, Cyprus and we compare attitudes to language and reported language use in the two communities. We thereby highlight the significance of sociolinguistic variables on similar groups of speakers. We further extend our investigation to include codeswitching practices in the London commun…
A network model of language policy and planning
This article contributes to recent critical discussion of ‘agency’ in language policy and planning (LPP) research and practice. It argues that whilst scholars have widened their purview to consider the impact of individual actors on LPP in different contexts, the field has not developed or embraced theoretical and methodological frameworks which satisfactorily model or investigate the network of actor impact on LPP. This article analyzes the curr…
Language Attitudes, Shift and the Ethnolinguistic Vitality of the Greek Orthodox Community in Istanbul
The Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul has long existed as a bilingual Greek and Turkish grouping and remains largely unstudied. The sharp decrease in the size of this community to approximately 1000 members raises questions as to the maintenance of Greek in this setting. This study attempts to establish the current status of Greek in the community and explores key sociolinguistic and sociopsychological parameters relevant to its potential surv…
Leave no one behind”
In September 2015 the United Nations (UN) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering an internationally agreed blueprint for economic, environmental and social development. However those most in need and specifically targeted by the SDGs face significant barriers in accessing information and knowledge about the goals and sustainability in a language or medium that can be understood. Drawing on previous research on the UN’s language …
Networked Identities
Transnational dynamics have significantly changed established notions of communities and belonging. Transnational perspectives however remain marginal in research on European identities which has typically conceptualised the latter as emerging from and relying on essential national referents. Drawing on data derived from members of a transnational organisation promoting civic participation in Europe, this paper challenges existing representations…
Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members
Measuring Diversity in Multilingual Communication
This article develops new indices to measure linguistic diversity. It is new in two respects: firstly, existing indices to measure the probability that in a given multilingual context communication among people speaking different languages can successfully occur are based on the assumption that communication is possible only if at least one single language is shared. This study develops new indices that describe the probability that people with d…
Code-switching and pausing
This study considers code-switching (CS) and pausing in two sociolinguistically distinct groups in London and Cyprus, bilingual in Greek-Cypriot Dialect (GCD) and English. The characteristics of their speech are examined both in monolingual and bilingual modes (Grosjean, 2001). It was hypothesised that in London Greek-Cypriots, where CS is a ‘default mode’, pausing behaviour would be affected by the same factors as in monolinguals, but not by CS.…
The value of adopting multiple approaches and methodologies in the investigation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality
The concept of ‘ethnolinguistic vitality’ (EV) has received variable acceptance and support within academic investigations since its introduction by Giles, Bourhis & Taylor (1977). It has especially proven to be a valuable heuristic in studies of language maintenance and shift. However, the reliability and validity of the instruments used to investigate EV, especially questionnaires used to test subjective vitality, have proven to be more problem…
Using corpus linguistics to investigate agency and benign neglect in organisational language policy and planning
This article responds to recent calls to investigate the role of agents and the connections between layers of agency in the development and implementation of language policy and planning (LPP). Using a corpus linguistic and discursive approach to language policy, we identify interventions made in plenary sessions by Secretary-Generals (SGs) and Member States (MSs) at the United Nations when discussing language issues over a period of 46 years (19…
Constraints of hierarchy on meso-actors’ agency
This paper contributes to recent discussions of levels of agency in Language Policy and Planning (LPP) research. It specifically aims to understand the role and importance of meso-level actors as arbiters of policy implementation. It argues that, whilst understanding of both macro- and micro-agency has grown over the past decade, little is understood about the experience of meso-level agents. The paper seeks to address this by focussing on the LP…
Narratives of sex-segregated professional identities
Building on recent investigations of the role of gendered discourses in constructing and maintaining sex-segregated professions this article highlights the significance of small story analysis for the identification of positioning acts which function as rhetorical warrants for career choices and trajectories. It analyses small stories told by Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and investigates the tensions expressed in the negotiation and perf…
Geostrategies of Interlingualism
Fettes (2004) asserts that ‘politico-strategies’ of languages are no longer viable frameworks for ‘national and community policy’. Rather, he proposes the development of ‘geostrategies of interlingualism’, i.e. linguistic strategies which promote international communication equitably and efficiently, whilst respecting and ensuring language maintenance and pluralism. He asserts that the future development of interlingual communication will depend …
Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community
An investigation of reported attitudes and language use in Cyprus has enabled an interpretation of social conditions affording status and 'price' to products available in the linguistic market-place. It has identified boundaries of social division and provided reasons for the coexistence of multiple linguistic codes. An empirical investigation, with recourse to the theory of practice (Bourdieu, 1997), identifies and accounts for the use of nation…
Agency and structure in language policy
Over the past two decades, there has been increasing focus in language policy and planning (LPP) research on the role of agency. Along with this foregrounding of agency, there has been a tendency to background social structures, including the interplay of structure and agency around LPP processes. Accordingly, drawing on findings from the analysis of recent reports produced by the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit pertaining to multilingual po…
Putting negotiation on a 'principal-ed' footing
The impact of English in postcolonial, postmodern Cyprus
The role and potential hegemonic affect of the English language in postmodern and postcolonial nations continues to dominate discourse internationally. Recent studies in Europe have highlighted the benefits and costs of English as a lingua franca and have also described changing patterns of use within communities, by underlining its potential dominance at the expense of national varieties, leading to the reformulation of national, social and cult…
Issues of Identity and Power in a Greek-Cypriot Community
An investigation of reported attitudes and language use in Cyprus has enabled an interpretation of social conditions affording status and 'price' to products available in the linguistic market-place. It has identified boundaries of social division and provided reasons for the coexistence of multiple linguistic codes. An empirical investigation, with recourse to the theory of practice (Bourdieu, 1997), identifies and accounts for the use of nation…
The impact of English in postcolonial, postmodern Cyprus
The role and potential hegemonic affect of the English language in postmodern and postcolonial nations continues to dominate discourse internationally. Recent studies in Europe have highlighted the benefits and costs of English as a lingua franca and have also described changing patterns of use within communities, by underlining its potential dominance at the expense of national varieties, leading to the reformulation of national, social and cult…
Language Attitudes and Use in a Transplanted Setting
In this paper we explore language attitudes and use in the Greek Cypriot community in London, England. Our study is based on an earlier survey carried out in Nicosia, Cyprus and we compare attitudes to language and reported language use in the two communities. We thereby highlight the significance of sociolinguistic variables on similar groups of speakers. We further extend our investigation to include codeswitching practices in the London commun…
Geostrategies of Interlingualism
Fettes (2004) asserts that ‘politico-strategies’ of languages are no longer viable frameworks for ‘national and community policy’. Rather, he proposes the development of ‘geostrategies of interlingualism’, i.e. linguistic strategies which promote international communication equitably and efficiently, whilst respecting and ensuring language maintenance and pluralism. He asserts that the future development of interlingual communication will depend …
Language Attitudes, Shift and the Ethnolinguistic Vitality of the Greek Orthodox Community in Istanbul
The Greek Orthodox community of Istanbul has long existed as a bilingual Greek and Turkish grouping and remains largely unstudied. The sharp decrease in the size of this community to approximately 1000 members raises questions as to the maintenance of Greek in this setting. This study attempts to establish the current status of Greek in the community and explores key sociolinguistic and sociopsychological parameters relevant to its potential surv…
The value of adopting multiple approaches and methodologies in the investigation of Ethnolinguistic Vitality
The concept of ‘ethnolinguistic vitality’ (EV) has received variable acceptance and support within academic investigations since its introduction by Giles, Bourhis & Taylor (1977). It has especially proven to be a valuable heuristic in studies of language maintenance and shift. However, the reliability and validity of the instruments used to investigate EV, especially questionnaires used to test subjective vitality, have proven to be more problem…
Order in ‘polylogue’
Examination of negotiation as a formal and informal interactional activity within institutional contexts has increasingly become prevalent in the literature (see for example Arminen 2005; Firth 1995a, 1995b). Many of these studies have focused on a fine-grained microanalysis of the local determination of meaning of utterances and their sequential organization invoking Conversation Analysis as a methodological tool in monolingual settings. Few cro…
Code-switching and pausing
This study considers code-switching (CS) and pausing in two sociolinguistically distinct groups in London and Cyprus, bilingual in Greek-Cypriot Dialect (GCD) and English. The characteristics of their speech are examined both in monolingual and bilingual modes (Grosjean, 2001). It was hypothesised that in London Greek-Cypriots, where CS is a ‘default mode’, pausing behaviour would be affected by the same factors as in monolinguals, but not by CS.…
Networked Identities
Transnational dynamics have significantly changed established notions of communities and belonging. Transnational perspectives however remain marginal in research on European identities which has typically conceptualised the latter as emerging from and relying on essential national referents. Drawing on data derived from members of a transnational organisation promoting civic participation in Europe, this paper challenges existing representations…
A network model of language policy and planning
This article contributes to recent critical discussion of ‘agency’ in language policy and planning (LPP) research and practice. It argues that whilst scholars have widened their purview to consider the impact of individual actors on LPP in different contexts, the field has not developed or embraced theoretical and methodological frameworks which satisfactorily model or investigate the network of actor impact on LPP. This article analyzes the curr…
“Leave no one behind”
In September 2015 the United Nations (UN) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering an internationally agreed blueprint for economic, environmental and social development. However those most in need and specifically targeted by the SDGs face significant barriers in accessing information and knowledge about the goals and sustainability in a language or medium that can be understood. Drawing on previous research on the UN’s language …
Narratives of sex-segregated professional identities
Building on recent investigations of the role of gendered discourses in constructing and maintaining sex-segregated professions this article highlights the significance of small story analysis for the identification of positioning acts which function as rhetorical warrants for career choices and trajectories. It analyses small stories told by Speech and Language Therapists (SLTs) and investigates the tensions expressed in the negotiation and perf…
Leave no one behind”
In September 2015 the United Nations (UN) adopted 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) offering an internationally agreed blueprint for economic, environmental and social development. However those most in need and specifically targeted by the SDGs face significant barriers in accessing information and knowledge about the goals and sustainability in a language or medium that can be understood. Drawing on previous research on the UN’s language …
Mapping the language ideologies of organisational members
Constraints of hierarchy on meso-actors’ agency
This paper contributes to recent discussions of levels of agency in Language Policy and Planning (LPP) research. It specifically aims to understand the role and importance of meso-level actors as arbiters of policy implementation. It argues that, whilst understanding of both macro- and micro-agency has grown over the past decade, little is understood about the experience of meso-level agents. The paper seeks to address this by focussing on the LP…
Measuring Diversity in Multilingual Communication
This article develops new indices to measure linguistic diversity. It is new in two respects: firstly, existing indices to measure the probability that in a given multilingual context communication among people speaking different languages can successfully occur are based on the assumption that communication is possible only if at least one single language is shared. This study develops new indices that describe the probability that people with d…
Multilingual repertoires and identity in social media
Aims and objectives/purpose/research questions: This study explores the linguistic resources used on Facebook (FB) by six resettled Syrian refugees in the United Kingdom. It investigates the multilingual varieties and scripts employed, their discursive functions and their role in the construction of identity/ies. Design/methodology/approach: The study employs descriptive linguistic and discourse-centred online ethnographic approaches. These are c…
Language and identity
“Identity” as an operating variable and/or explanatory concept continues to pervade sociolinguistic scholarship. This article reflects on and discusses the continuing dominance of post-structural and social constructionist accounts of identity and debates whether recent work has led to an “unrestrained embracing of speaker agency” (Bell 2017: 592) with a comparative neglect of social structure, or whether this work is contributing to a more nuanc…
From offline to online stigma resistance
This paper is the first to address the impact of gendered, cultural and religious discourses on an under-researched subaltern group of infertile Muslim women bloggers. Taking a small story and case study approach, the analysis focuses on interactivity and positioning ( Bamberg & Georgakopoulou, 2008 , Georgakopoulou, 2008 ) in one woman’s stories as she works hard to address normative expectations and dominant discourses which abound in Muslim so…
Using corpus linguistics to investigate agency and benign neglect in organisational language policy and planning
This article responds to recent calls to investigate the role of agents and the connections between layers of agency in the development and implementation of language policy and planning (LPP). Using a corpus linguistic and discursive approach to language policy, we identify interventions made in plenary sessions by Secretary-Generals (SGs) and Member States (MSs) at the United Nations when discussing language issues over a period of 46 years (19…
Agency and structure in language policy
Over the past two decades, there has been increasing focus in language policy and planning (LPP) research on the role of agency. Along with this foregrounding of agency, there has been a tendency to background social structures, including the interplay of structure and agency around LPP processes. Accordingly, drawing on findings from the analysis of recent reports produced by the United Nations Joint Inspection Unit pertaining to multilingual po…
Putting negotiation on a 'principal-ed' footing
A tripartite model examining language ideologies
The concepts of ‘dangerous’, ‘celebratory’, and ‘hegemonic’ multilingualism provide a valuable heuristic to explore language ideologies within supranational organizations like the United Nations. Adopting a critical stance in relation to the functions and values assigned to multilingualism and applying corpus-assisted discourse analysis, this study examines three ideological manifestations: verbalizations, metapragmatic acts, and linguistic pract…
Sociology (22 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (17 works) · Linguistics (16 works) · Social science (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Language planning (8 works) · Language policy (8 works) · Psychology (8 works)