Abstract：The topic of international discourse power has been increasingly discussed recently. However, in such discussions, the role of language has been hardly touched upon largely because when academic power and language power overlap, the latter tends to be overshadowed by the former. Particularly in the current academic world, there are four cycling factors, namely academic innovation, English power, a platform for disseminating information, and academic impact, which are reinforcing each other to produce the Matthew Effect. As a result, academic power and language power have formed an academic-English power complex beyond our awareness. The role of language in international academic discourse power is primarily determined by macro-level factors such as the nation’s hard power of economy, militaries, sciences, and meso-level factors including the national policy of academic language and scholars’ awareness of language power. Currently, China has already had hard power as its basis for promoting the status of Chinese in the international academic discourse. Chinese scholars and policy-makers must realize the importance of language power so that three immediate actions can be taken to acquire the due status of the Chinese language in the international academic arena. First, a clear policy of language use in academic discourse should be made so that the Chinese language can become an academic lingua franca next to English within 30 years. Second, the Chinese language should be used to formulate new concepts, theories, and research methods produced by Chinese scholars. Third, with joint efforts of the Chinese government and scholars, the new knowledge should be simultaneously disseminated at home and abroad.
文秋芳. 学术国际话语权中的语言权问题[J]. 语言战略研究, 2021, 6(3): 76-85.
Wen Qiufang. On the Role of Language in International Academic Discourse Power: The Status of Chinese. , 2021, 6(3): 76-85.
