Abstract：The outbreak of COVID-2019 has become an international crisis for public health, requiring extensive responses from the central governments. For multilingual countries like China, language issues loom large in the emergency responding apparatus. In this paper, Japan’s experience of developing “Easy Japanese” for emergency relief is examined in order to provide a practical reference to China’s language solutions to emergencies. At the end of last century, Japan began to develop “Easy Japanese”, a simplified version of Japanese aimed for easy communication in emergencies, and has been regularly revising it. Our overview of “Easy Japanese” consists of the background of its development, the targeted audience, its basic characteristics and the operational mechanism. Based on the experience of Japan, the author provides reference for the construction of emergency language mechanism in China, to further improve the construction of emergency language corpus to promote the development of empirical research, and to refine the characteristics of emergency language and expand the application field. With the help of the government, we will build an all-round normal cooperation system. These measures may help China improve its language responses in emergencies.
王 娟，曲志强. “简易日语”与救灾应急[J]. 语言战略研究, 2020, 5(5): 57-66.
Wang Juan and Qu Zhiqiang. “Easy Japanese” in Emergency Relief and Its Implication for China. , 2020, 5(5): 57-66.
