从中国语言文化资源保护的内容、要求和方言民俗调查的一般规律出发,语保工程的方言文化调查中应当贯彻五个理念:工程观、系统观、文化观、求真观、精品观。其中“系统观”强调调查、记录时应关注词音与词义、词语与对象、不同民俗事象之间的有机关联;“文化观”强调要下功夫深入挖掘和揭示方言词语、民俗事象背后的文化意义;“求真观”强调必须把真实的方言民俗文化记录、保存下来,呈现出来。
Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China includes three important components: investigation into major regional dialects, endangered language protection, and language and cultural survey. Based on the requirement of content in Chinese language and culture protection and the general principles of dialect and folklore investigation, this paper elaborates on a number of principles that one should adhere to when studying dialect and culture research and in implementing the Project for the Protection of Language Resources of China. They are: project view, systematic view, cultural view, view of pursuance in truth. Systematic view emphasizes the organic associations between vocabulary pronunciation and its meaning, the word and object being represented, and different folk-customs during research. Cultural view attaches the importance to exploring and revealing the cultural implications refl ected in dialectal words and local customs. Pursuance in truth concerns the need to record, to preserve, and to display the authentic attributes of local dialect and folklore. It is the author’s hope that this article provides some guidance, derived from hand-on experience, for language protection professionals in project implementation.