The multilingual discourse within the academic institutions : facilitating or complicating communication

Abstract EN

The present study aims at evaluating the effectiveness of utilizing a multilingual discourse for communication within the academic institutional settings.

A corpus of 100 announcements and notices from the routine work posted on two Algerian universities' websites addressing students is compiled.

The descriptive and analytical approach was adopted.

The Findings reveal the overuse of alternation of languages within the same document.

This proves that the monolingual usage is impossible to be applicable within a discourse community whose members were saturated at an early age with a great linguistic diversity that comprises different language dialects, Arabic and French as two official administrative languages in addition to the English language which imposed its presence in Algeria by virtue of its global use.