On impact of political correctness requirements to the language of IAEA technical documents

Elena Bayankina, Head of Foreign Languages Department, South-West State University, Kursk, Russia   (e-mail: bayankina@mail.ru)

Sergey Pegov, Head of the Section of International Nuclear Safety Programs of International and External Economic Relations of JSC “Rosenergoatom”   (e-mail: pegov@mail.ru) 

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS EFFECTS IN THE LANGUAGE OF IAEA TECDOCs  

The paper discusses some factors of extra linguistic influence on the language of the publications of the International Atomic Energy Agency with basic focus on political correctness effects. These effects are tracked down on different language layers.        

Key words: the language of an organization, extra linguistic influence, political correctness, euphemism, modality, язык организации, экстралингвистическое влияние,  политкорректность, эвфемизм, модальность, слова-расширения.