Canadian Foreign Policy: A Linguistically Divided Field

This study analyses the French-language scholars' place in Canadian foreign policy. More precisely, it measures and compares their productions in French and in English (output) and the citations to this output (impact) in works by English-language scholars. The output is measured using the Cana...

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Published in:Canadian journal of political science 2011-09, Vol.44 (3), p.685-709
Main Authors: Cornut, Jérémie, Roussel, Stéphane
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
21st century
Academic profession
Bibliographies
Bibliometrics
Canada
Discrimination
English language
Foreign Policy
French language
French literature
Government relations
Humanities
International relations
Language use
Linguistics
Nonnative languages
Political science
Political science research
Production
Quantitative analysis
Review articles
Scholarly publishing
Scientometrics
Social sciences
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Summary:This study analyses the French-language scholars' place in Canadian foreign policy. More precisely, it measures and compares their productions in French and in English (output) and the citations to this output (impact) in works by English-language scholars. The output is measured using the Canadian Foreign Relations Index. Then a representative sample of bibliographies taken from books and articles written by English-language scholars and published between 1997 and 2007 is analyzed. Various conclusions on the place of French and French-language scholars in the field are drawn from these data, including their small contribution to Canadian foreign policy and the absence of citations to works in French by English-language scholars. Political implications of the results are discussed. Résumé. Cette analyse examine la place des chercheurs francophones dans l'étude de la politique étrangère canadienne. Plus précisément, elle mesure et compare leurs publications en français et en anglais (la production) et les citations tirées de cette production (l'incidence) que l'on retrouve dans les travaux des chercheurs anglophones. La production est mesurée à l'aide du Canadian Foreign Relations Index. Puis un échantillon représentatif de bibliographies de travaux anglophones publiés entre 1997 et 2007 est analysé. Ces données permettent de tirer diverses conclusions sur la place du français et des chercheurs francophones dans ce champ d'étude. Il apparait, notamment, que la contribution des francophones au domaine de la politique étrangère canadienne est réduite et que les chercheurs anglophones ne citent pratiquement jamais les travaux en français. Les auteurs dégagent, en conclusion, les conséquences politiques de ces résultats.
ISSN:0008-4239
1744-9324
DOI:10.1017/S0008423911000540