The Language Resource Perspective: A Foundational Theoretical Pillar to the School of Language Life

Su Xinchun

Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2025, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (5) : 5-14.

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Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning ›› 2025, Vol. 10 ›› Issue (5) : 5-14. DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20250501

The Language Resource Perspective: A Foundational Theoretical Pillar to the School of Language Life

  • Su Xinchun
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This paper systematically reviews the formation trajectory, theoretical framework, and practical impact of the language resource perspective as a foundational theory of the School of Language Life (SLL). China’s language resource perspective emerged in the early 21st century, an era marked by the development of large-scale corpora. It was advanced by SLL scholars and evolved from theoretical construction to social practice. Its core contributions lie in three areas. Firstly, it constructs a three-dimensional value system, where cultural inheritance value sustains national heritage, social service value underpins language governance, and data intelligence value drives technological innovation. Secondly, it posits that language resources possess both utility and developability, embodying a high unity of material carriers and humanistic value. Within this framework, language resources are classified according to language-internal versus language-derived resources and spatial distribution versus functional hierarchy. Thirdly, it proposes response strategies encompassing resource investigation, storage, and management; processing, annotation, and monitoring; and development, utilization, and protection. This theory has significantly shaped the academic ecology of the SLL. At the ideological level, it has spawned core propositions such as cultural perspective, security perspective, service perspective, and protection-development perspective. At the methodological level, it has forged a tripartite research paradigm integrating a pragmatic and objective empirical approach, a practice-oriented approach to societal feedback, and a concise and precise expressive style. Two decades of research demonstrate that, through research networks and academic platforms, the language resource perspective has not only catalyzed extensive studies of social language applications but also enhanced the systematic development of national language capacity, providing a distinctive Chinese approach to global language resource governance.

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language resource / national language resources / School of Language Life / fundamental theory

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Su Xinchun. The Language Resource Perspective: A Foundational Theoretical Pillar to the School of Language Life[J]. Chinese Journal of Language Policy and Planning. 2025, 10(5): 5-14 https://doi.org/10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20250501

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