Supplementary file 1_From world Englishes to Hyperlingua: English as infrastructural gover

37 publicly accessible texts and artefacts form a purposively sampled corpus for a critical language policy study. The corpus, organized across policy, digital, and academic domains, was created by Mohamad Almashour and last updated on April 22, 2026. The 17.5 KB DOCX file analyzes English's role in governance systems in Jordan and comparator contexts in the Middle East.

Use Cases

• Analyzing the linkage between English and employability/benchmarking based on policy texts mentioned in the description
• Examining the placement of English in public and digital interfaces for navigation and transaction based on the described corpus
• Studying requirements for English abstracts and metadata in academic governance for visibility and indexing
• Investigating the diagnostic construct of 'Hyperlingua' for infrastructural language governance introduced in the article

Strengths

• Corpus is purposively sampled and organized across three distinct analytical domains: policy, digital, and academic governance
• File is openly licensed under CC-BY-4.0, permitting reuse and redistribution
• Study design combines Critical Language Policy and Critical Discourse Analysis, providing a clear methodological framework

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The 17.5 KB size indicates a very limited textual corpus, not a large-scale dataset
• Data may reflect geographic and source bias inherent to the purposive sampling of texts from Jordan and selected Gulf contexts

Provenance

Source

Mohamad Almashour via figshare

Collection Method

Purposive sampling and critical discourse analysis of publicly accessible texts and artefacts

Time Range

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Freshness

Last updated 2026-04-22 05:46:16; freshness should be verified

Geography

Primarily Jordan, with selected comparator materials from Saudi Arabia and the Gulf region