Abstract
<p align="center"><em>This qualitative case study research aimed to investigate the notions of power and hegemony in research consultations around the construct of language ideologies. The study employed purposive sampling by selecting two MS (Education) research supervisees with their supervisors. It identified a social wrong of power and hegemony in research supervision practices and with a transformative spirit, hoped to bring about awareness and modifications in research supervision. Methodically, the study followed the analytical approach of Norman Fairclough’s Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) (1989; 2003). The data were collected through observations and transcriptions of research consultation meetings and interviews of the participants. The textual analysis of case one revealed how language became a source of establishing asymmetrical power relations between the participants. Contrastingly, in case two the consultations were not hinged on language aspects and had more equality and homogeneity between the partners. The finding of the study indicated that language ideologies played a very important role in sustaining the dominant position of the powerful agent, that is, the supervisor. Based on the findings, it is hoped that this research would lead to more democratic styles of supervision and equity and emancipation in supervision as a social practice.</em></p><p><strong> </strong></p><p><strong>Keywords: </strong>critical discourse analysis, power and hegemony, language ideologies, research supervision</p><p> </p>
Highlights
The contribution of the field of language ideology is overarching in linguistic anthropology, linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis
This paper focuses on the textual analysis based on the description of the textual linguistic features of language ideologies manifested in research supervision in which language becomes a source of power and hegemony
The study took the critical stance of ideology based on Woolard’s (1992) premise, and its purpose was to investigate the notions of power and hegemony around the construct of language ideologies in research supervision practices
Summary
The contribution of the field of language ideology is overarching in linguistic anthropology, linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, and discourse analysis. The field has contributed immensely in understanding the use of language in society, and has developed in the 20th century as an independent area of study, combining perspectives from linguistic ethnography and the social scientific study of ideology. Language consists of deep sociocultural, political and historical processes, and as such, the very existence of language is ideological, which involves power, authority, and control (Blommaert, 2006). Language ideology has attained a significant place in the ethnographic tradition of linguistic anthropology, variationist sociolinguistics, and applied linguistics. Major scholarships in the field are concerned with the ideologies prevalent in education, gender studies, globalization and political economy, media and organizations. Some of the major probes have been related to power and control, peripheral normativity, racism, inequality and child labour
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