Languages for specific purposes, at the heart of European university language policies

In languages for specific purposes (LSP) in Europe, research and online and blended learning are increasingly funded through answering calls for projects (Bertin 2011). This explains why knowing the expectations of the various levels of governement is crucial. Our work aims first at presenting such expectations according to the categories of language management agents established by Spolsky (2009) which are comprised of supranational organisations, State, regions, etc. A qualitative analysis of a corpus in English of language policy recommendations, compendia of European projects and other discursive forms allows to precisely describe the language of LSP projects. Such language may be seen as a European metalanguage for LSP.