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2020 Vol. 5, No. 3
Published: 2020-05-10
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Extensive Sociolinguistic Fieldwork Is Productive
Tian Xiaolin
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 1-1 [
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Perspectives: Views from Press Spokespersons on Language and Language Use
Wang Xuming/Liu Youbin/Mao Qun’an/Wu Heping
The Principle of Sincerity Should Be Followed by a Press Spokesperson …
Wang Xuming
The Spokesperson for the State Should Best Deliver an “Official Speech” …
Liu Youbin
The Beauty of a Spokesperson’s Language …
Mao Qun’an
Best Content Should Be Best Expressed by the Press Spokesperson …
Wu Heping
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 5-9 [
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Social Emergency Response Mechanism Got Enhanced with the Study of Language Strategies
Xu Daming
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 10-11 [
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A Study of Demand-Driven Language Emergency Service System
Yin Zhiping
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200301
Language services in public emergencies of widespread concern are highly complex in real practice. It is essential to establish an effective national system for language emergency service and provide necessary and appropriate responses in the process. To such an end, the identification of language service needs is the pivotal first step to take. Based on the Customer Needs Identification Model developed by Gong et al. (2003) in management studies, the author proposes a multilayered model to identify language emergency service needs. This demand-driven identification model includes a battery of components, processes and social participants, such as service recipients, service needs segmentation, service recipients’ expectations, language ability of the service providers (adjustment), and service needs lists. Taking this model as an analytic paradigm, this paper investigates the practice of language services in combatting COVID-19 and diagnoses existing problems in the practice. Finally, it offers some suggestions to improve language emergency service, including undertaking surveys of language emergency service needs, collecting census data on language distribution, use and proficiency, developing language emergency service as a discipline of study, and establishing a comprehensive language service system at various levels to meet demands in emergency.
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 12-22 [
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The Practice of and Reflections on “Epidemic Language Service Corps”
Li Yuming, Zhao Shiju and He Lin
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200302
Soon after the outbreak of COVID-19, linguists in China formed the “Epidemic Language Service Corps” and developed a series of language service products, such as “Hubei Dialects Glossary for Fighting Epidemic”, “Foreign Language Glossary for Fighting Epidemic” and “Concise Chinese for Fighting Epidemic”, which have provided practical language services of public emergency for fighting against the COVID-19 epidemic. This work also helped accumulate valuable experience in building the national language emergency services. Taking these into account, we suggest that the construction of national language emergency services should be in line with the general picture of a comprehensive planning. Based on all-round preparation, this practice has proven to be efficient in responding to public emergency, and a language service system is taking shape. Looking beyond we should consider on one hand to further construct the language emergency service and knowledge base, and on the other to build mobilization mechanisms and security systems. It is also important to implement an emergency language situation monitoring and early-warning system. The practical application of academic resources shows that establishing “Epidemic Language Service Corps” and strengthening academic research in language emergency service are becoming increasingly necessary. All of these have spurred us to believe that the Epidemic Language Service Corps should offer long term and stable language emergency services. Rather than what is described above, it is important to strengthen the problem-driven language research and attach importance to maintaining necessary scholarship with an aim to cope with the future crisis.
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 23-30 [
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A Study of Public Linguistic Capacity in Responding to Emergencies: Its Composition and Application in the Prevention and Control of COVID-19
Wang Ling and Tan Yuxin
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200303
The construction of the system of public linguistic capacity in responding to emergencies (PLCRE) is a new topic of linguistics in China. An in-depth study of this issue can contribute to the construction of national emergency system. Most of the previous studies adopt the perspectives of rhetorics and pragmatics, and research with a focus on language use is rare. Based on a self-built small corpus, this study discusses the connotation and composition of PLCRE and its application in the prevention and control of COVID-19. It is found that PLCRE is composed of emergency knowledge capacity, social and cultural interaction capacity and multilingual resource capacity. The three elements play different roles but complement each other. Only when they are integrated can a positive language environment be constructed.
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 31-39 [
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Reflections on Language Emergency Services for People with Hearing Loss in Epidemic of COVID-19
Zheng Xuan
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200304
The outbreak of COVID-19 has revealed the lack of language emergency services for people with special needs. The needs of hearing-impaired people are diversified thus the demand for more individualized services for effective communication during the epidemic period is also increasingly prominent. These services include urgent support in spoken language, written language, sign language interpretation, lip-reading and other communication channels. During the critical period of the COVID-19, the government adopted more personalized and user-friendly measures for information briefing and the Deaf Association also played a bridging role in connecting its community with different parties. Advanced technology also proves to be conducive in facilitating information accessibility in communication with the hearing-impaired community. All means mentioned above served to meet the communication needs of the hearing-impaired community to some extent. However, there are still some problems, such as the lack of effective supervision of We Media and the existence of barriers for the communication between the doctors and patients. Based on a survey of research literature, official regulations and media coverage, we suggest that we should enhance the awareness of complete accessibility, ensure the communication right of people with special needs, promote wider use of the Chinese National Sign Language, accelerate the professionalization of sign language interpretation, and learn from international experience in order to improve the efficiency of language emergency services in China.
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A Keyword-Based Description of China’s Fight against COVID-19
Hou Min and Teng Yonglin
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200305
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has a huge impact on the world and attracts wide attention from scholars and media both at home and abroad. A keyword-based search was conducted in a self-built corpus with data collected from nine domestic newspapers and CCTV news, spanning from January 1st, 2020 to April 9th, 2020. The search results show emerging patterns of the use of keywords such as the naming of the virus, epidemic control and prevention, reopening for work and production, and global fight against COVID-19, which describe the combatting process in different periods and from different perspectives. It is hoped that the patterns of the use of these keywords can help us gain a better understanding of China’s efforts and contributions as well as the problems and limitations in the fight against COVID-19.
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 50-61 [
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Emergency Language Service for 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake
Bao Lianqun
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200306
This paper takes the 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake as an example to introduce the situation of emergency language service in Japan. Firstly, it introduces the emergency disaster laws and regulations, relevant government service agencies and operational systems of Japan. Secondly, through the case introductions, it was clarified that the way of emergency language service for 3/11 Great East Japan Earthquake was not limited to specially set up service windows and carrying out face-to-face consultation service. It also included telephone consultation services, TV / radio, network / network radio of multilingual services such as broadcast, etc. There are more than 10 service languages, as well as concise Japanese services and dialect services. The contents of these emergency language services include: the provision of portable manuals of
Multilingual Guide for Daily Life
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Multilingual Guide for Disaster Prevention
; the provision of emergency daily information such as relevant refuges urgently needed by foreigners in severely affected areas, earthquakes / aftershocks, and evacuation contact numbers / assembly locations, knowledge of nuclear radiation prevention, electricity and water, bank and road traffic, related drinking water and vegetable pollution, etc. Thirdly, this paper summarizes the results of multilingual services implemented in Japan in case of
an earthquake, most of which come from the continuous improvement and previous experience. Through the establishment of a multilingual service team to tap the strength of citizens and implement talent training in order to prepare social resources for emergency, Japan has realized the vertical (government) and horizontal (Civil Society) organic joint systems. At the same time, some problems and limitations are pointed out, such as insufficient publicity of emergency language services, and the failure to establish a comprehensive and effective “Social Network” systems between resident foreigners. Finally, the paper discusses the current situation of the improvement of emergency language service after the “3/11” Great East Japan Earthquake, and puts forward the suggestions on building up China's emergency language service system.
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Diverse Views on Issues Concerning Emergency Language
Wang Lifei, Wang Mingyu, Shen Qi, Ma Ruohong, Du Min, Xu Xinlu, Zhang Xuemei and Li Siyuan
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 75-79 [
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On the Institutionalization of the National Languages Strategy in the UK
Ma Yan and Zhao Ronghui
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200307
The National Languages Strategy (NLS) is an important planning action in the UK targeted at promoting foreign language education over the last decade or so. Its purpose is to improve the foreign language proficiency for citizens in the UK so as to meet the demand of national interests of security and diplomacy, economy and trade, and the development of individual citizenship. Furthermore, language planning activities also play a role in enhancing societal pluralism and academic endeavours. Based on the analytical framework of the three components of institution proposed, this paper reviews the progress, effectiveness and weaknesses of NLS in the aspects of formal rules, informal rules and enforcement. The findings show that the past experience of language education planning demonstrates both strength and weakness. For future directions, only when NLS remains continuous, time enduring and interactive in terms of the three components can it be “institutionalized” and eventually change the current situation of foreign language education.
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A Treasure House for Studies on Child Language and Child Development: A Review of
Early Years of Life: Language Diary of a Chinese Girl
Li Jinxia
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200308
This article reviews the Professor Li Yuming’s new book titled
Early Years of Life: Language Diary of a Chinese Girl
, which is believed to be the world’s longest documentation of the developmental trajectory of language acquisition and growth of a child from her birth to the age of six. The book is an encyclopedia of individual child language acquisition and cognitive development. This paper discusses the scholarly values and social significance of the book from two fields: the study of child language development and the study of child development. First, the book is a treasure house for child language studies and inspires readers in three aspects: 1. Detailed observation is the cornerstone for child language studies; 2. Child language development should be conducted through longitudinal observations and holistic recording of child growth; 3. The book provides space for multidisciplinary study of children’s language. Secondly, the book can serve as a database for child development and child education. As a holistic record of child cognitive development, it sets a model for the study of early child education. In conclusion, the book has great value in promoting the study of child language development in China. Its publication will inspire broad attention to and reflection on child education in China.
2020 Vol. 5 (3): 89-96 [
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