中国语言资源保护工程规模浩大,任务艰巨,牵涉面广,政策敏感性强,社会关注度高。在具体实施过程中,遇到了各种各样的困难和挑战。但从总体上看,实施方案合理可行,工作进展顺利,社会评价正面。特别是在政府统筹规划、规范标准设计以及现代化技术手段运用等方面,语保工程具有显著的先进性和前瞻性。本文回应大家对语保工程、语保工作关切的主要问题,并提出了“多语分用”的理念。“多语分用”的本质是在“多语体”内构建一种分层分类的多语共存体系,使各语言、各方言之间形成主体和多样、高层和低层、正规和随意的多元互补关系,各司其职,和而不同。
China has recently embarked upon a large project of language preservation with ambitious goals, which is featured with broad participation and political sensitivity; it thus has attracted a great deal of public attention. The research team also has encountered various diffi culties and challenges during the project implementation. However, in general, given the positive feedback we have received from the public, the project framework has been proven feasible and it has been progressing well so far. Particularly, given its forward planning nature, the Project spearheads the language conservation due to the following three treats: it is government guided, formulating an array of standards and criterions, and characteristic of application of advanced technology. This paper endeavors to answer the major concerns from the public about the Project and its implementation, in the mean time, to present the new concept we proposed as ‘Multiple-Languages-Respective-Domains’, the core nature of which is to construct a hierarchical relationships between layers of languages and regional variants within a multilingual community. Such a framework enables the harmonious co-existence among lingua franca, regional languages and local dialects with each functioning within respective domains, achieving diversity in unity.