The Inner Logic and Practice Path of Language Assisting Rural Revitalization

Huang Longguang and Yang Hui

Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2023, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (5) : 21-31.

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Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2023, Vol. 8 ›› Issue (5) : 21-31. DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20230502

The Inner Logic and Practice Path of Language Assisting Rural Revitalization

  • Huang Longguang and Yang Hui
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With the nationwide implementation of the rural revitalization strategy, the role of languages in China’s rural revitalization has been obtaining much academic attention. This study focuses on the inner logic and practice path of language assisting rural revitalization. Against the background of rural revitalization, the functions of rural languages are gradually changing, thus bringing changes to rural language life. Language assistance in rural revitalization has inherent logic in terms of culture, society, institution, and economy. Correspondingly, four practice paths have been formed, including anchoring key groups for two-way language learning, promoting modernization of rural language governance, moderately developing and utilizing language resources, and comprehensively safeguarding and inheriting rural languages. There is no universal path for languages to assist rural revitalization, and creativity is needed based on the specific resources and advantages of the rural area. This study argues that the study of language assistance in rural revitalization must return to the rural language life, describe and record rural language facts and experiences, explain the local mechanisms and laws of language assistance in rural revitalization, provide rich rural language facts and language rules for sociolinguistics, and improve the academic explanatory power and disciplinary imagination of linguistics to focus on people’s livelihood.

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rural revitalization / inner logic and practice path / two-way language learning of key groups / governance of rural language and rural language governance

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Huang Longguang and Yang Hui. The Inner Logic and Practice Path of Language Assisting Rural Revitalization[J]. Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning. 2023, 8(5): 21-31 https://doi.org/10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20230502

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