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2020 Vol. 5, No. 5
Published: 2020-09-10
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Pondering the Implications of Big Data Analysis
Zheng Jinquan
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Interdisciplinary Talk: Views from the CCTV Presenters on Language and Language Use
Jing Yidan, Zhang Yue, Chang Xiao and Ju Ping
Are We Well Equipped for Improvisation? ...
Jing Yidan
From News Broadcasting to Recitation ...
Zhang Yue
My Views on Presenters’ Spoken Language Standardization ...
Chang Xiao
Special Features and Skills of the Language Use for Hosting the Children’s Program ...
Ju Ping
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 5-10 [
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Three Principal Domains for Emergency Language Study
Zhao Shiju
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The Development of Emergency Language Competence: A Perspective from State Governance
Wang Hui
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200501
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 demonstrates the critical need for emergence language competence. This article first introduces the basic concepts of state governance, then discusses the definition, typology and function of emergency language competence from the perspective of state governance, and finally proposes strategies for improving state emergency language competence. State emergency language competence is part of state emergency competence, playing an important role in public emergencies. The strategies for improving state emergency language competence include the following seven areas: establishing sound institutional mechanisms for language emergency response; formulating emergency language service policies; cultivating and reserving emergency language talents; enhancing the use of new technologies in emergency language services; establishing a state emergency language resource database; strengthening emergency information dissemination and discourse management; and enhancing the study of emergency language competence.
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 13-20 [
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A Sociological Case Analysis of Language Practice in Hotline Counseling during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Liu Meng
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200502
The outbreak of COVID-19 in 2020 has brought about profound impacts on individuals, families and the whole society. The public experienced many different types of psychological distress in the pandemic, such as coronavirus panic and anxiety, mental toll in quarantine, pains and depression of the patients and medical workers, grieves of the loss of beloved ones and so forth. In such a context, how to provide effective professional counseling service to people in need has become a research field for scholars in various disciplines. Language is, among others, believed to be able to play an irreplaceable role in the provision of emergency services. At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, there were over 4000 crisis hotlines serving the public in need. The hotline service provides an important resource for the inquiry of practice and implications of language emergency interventions. Based on a case of the hotline counselling, this paper explores strategies of language use and specific communication skills that the hotline service provider used in helping a client to solve problems. The author adopts Bourdieu’s field-habitus framework to explain the social factors affecting how service providers used these strategies.
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 21-31 [
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People’s Causal Cognition and Attributional Reflection amid the Pandemic: An Investigation from the Perspective of Linguistic Expressions
Yuan Yulin
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200503
Drawing upon the theoretical framework of ‘ladder of causation’ proposed by Pearl & Mackenzie (2018), this paper examines and analyses people’s causal cognition and attributional reflection on various prevention and control policies and measures as well as their effects in the pandemic situation of the COVID-19. To analyse people’s different observations and understandings of the pandemic, relevant linguistic expressions about the COVID-19 pandemic and its treatment measures are extracted from news reports and press coverage with an aim to reveal how people perceive the causal relation between actions of intervention and effects of control and thus to make inferences about it. A special focus is put on counter-factual expressions, e.g.,
Jiǎrú wǒmen dāngshí [bù] cǎiqǔ shèjiāo gélí cuòshī, qí jiéguǒ huì zěnyàng
? (If we had [not] taken the measure of social distancing at that time, what would the result have been?) We argue that through examination of the textual forms of syntactic patterns and semantic structures, one is able to unpack the expressive features concerning people’s causal cognition and attributional reflection. The findings show that such expressions can be utilized to gauge the judgements of people in different regions on causal cognition and attributional reflection, and they also demonstrate the awareness of accountability and evaluation towards the morality risk between prevention measures and their effects.
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 32-47 [
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An Evaluation of Xunfei Speech Input Software in the COVID-19 Pandemic Prevention
Wang Gaowu, Pang Bo, Li Chenguang and Yang Doudou
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200504
Intelligent speech technology has a unique advantage in compensating for the serious shortage of human resources, handling huge amounts of information and reducing the risk in a public emergency. In fighting the COVID-19, however, a communication and service problem in domestic emergency assistance has emerged as a challenge for intelligent speech technology, as there are many dialects in China. In this study, Xunfei speech input software, one of the best available in the Chinese market, was evaluated in the context of fighting the COVID-19 Pandemic. A total of 283 participants in 139 dialect communities took part in a simulated medical situation, where their speeches in their local dialects were recognized by the software. The recognition results have been analyzed and discussed, for exploring the prospects for intelligent speech technology to better serve people in a public emergency.
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 48-56 [
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“Easy Japanese” in Emergency Relief and Its Implication for China
Wang Juan and Qu Zhiqiang
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200505
The outbreak of COVID-2019 has become an international crisis for public health, requiring extensive responses from the central governments. For multilingual countries like China, language issues loom large in the emergency responding apparatus. In this paper, Japan’s experience of developing “Easy Japanese” for emergency relief is examined in order to provide a practical reference to China’s language solutions to emergencies. At the end of last century, Japan began to develop “Easy Japanese”, a simplified version of Japanese aimed for easy communication in emergencies, and has been regularly revising it. Our overview of “Easy Japanese” consists of the background of its development, the targeted audience, its basic characteristics and the operational mechanism. Based on the experience of Japan, the author provides reference for the construction of emergency language mechanism in China, to further improve the construction of emergency language corpus to promote the development of empirical research, and to refine the characteristics of emergency language and expand the application field. With the help of the government, we will build an all-round normal cooperation system. These measures may help China improve its language responses in emergencies.
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 57-66 [
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Approaches and Methodologies of Emergency Language Studies Abroad
Zhang Tianwei
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200506
Language emergency service is an important aspect of public emergency management. As an emerging research area in applied linguistics, language emergency studies have attracted much scholarly attention, and a wide range of issues concerning language emergency practice in various contexts have been investigated. This paper reviews the literature in language emergency studies abroad with a purpose to provide a reference for linguists in China. It is shown that the current research approaches language emergency from the perspectives of service demands and rights protection, language translation, language service forms, language information techniques and media discourse analysis. The main methodologies adopted include literature contrastive analysis, ethnography. and discourse analysis. The studies show features of interdisciplinary exploration and a combination of top-down and bottom-up research models. The approaches and methodology reviewed in this paper shows the future directions for emergency language studies in China.
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 67-78 [
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Foreign Language Education Policy in the Commonwealth Caribbean and Opportunities for the Development of TCSOL
Li Yanhua
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200507
Foreign language education policies of the Caribbean have a regional consistency but are also country-specific, with unique research values and referential significance. In view of this, as the development of Chinese language teaching is conducted within the framework of its foreign language education system in this region, its own pedagogical characteristics should be adaptable according to the local conditions. Through an extensive review of existing literature in the areas of language planning and education, this paper attempts to conduct a holistic survey of the local policy implementation in different historical periods in order to summarize the experience and tendency for its development trajectory. Based on the findings, the paper puts forward some suggestions for the opportunities for development of TCSOL and propose a feasible direction for Chinese language promotion in the Caribbean.
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A Review of
Difference and Repetition in Language Shift to a Creole: The Expression of Emotions
Ge Pingping
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20200508
2020 Vol. 5 (5): 92-96 [
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