Abstract：The past decades have witnessed a rapid development of language industry in China. The delimitation of connotation and denotation of language industry is a prerequisite for language industry research. Based on the definition of knowledge economy, this study defines language industry as an industry engaged in the production, distribution, use and consumption of language knowledge, or the provision of language services to meet others’ needs with language knowledge as its main service content. The language industry can be divided into secondary and tertiary industry/service industry, and the latter can be further divided into profit-based language service industry and public language service industry. Language industry covers translation, language training, language publishing, language exhibition, language rehabilitation, language information processing, language testing and assessment, and language art, with language creativity assigned to the advertising industry. It is of great theoretical and practical significance to understand the knowledge economy feature of the language industry. It is also necessary to find new directions and questions based on the language knowledge needs of the development of language industry in order to conduct research from the perspective of language industry. In addition, the development of language industry should meet the needs of language knowledge consumption in different areas of language industry.
殷志平. 知识经济视角下语言产业的内涵和外延[J]. 语言战略研究, 2021, 6(1): 68-76.
Yin Zhiping. A Study of the Connotation and Denotation of Language Industry from the Perspective of Knowledge Economy. , 2021, 6(1): 68-76.
