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2021 Vol. 6, No. 3
Published: 2021-05-10
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Two Strategic Perspectives of Research on Languages in China
Zhang Zhenxing
2021 Vol. 6 (3): 1-1 [
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Interdisciplinary Talk: Views on Language and Language Use from the Film Artists
Lu Qi, Guo Kaimin, Liu Zhibing, Zang Jinsheng
he Importance of Language Authenticity in Character Portrayal ...
Lu Qi
Some Issues Concerning Language Use in Movie and TV Program Production ...
Guo Kaimin
Language Accuracy: The Precondition for Artistic Expression of the Characters in Performance Arts ...
Liu Zhibing
To Form Personal Reading Styles Through Trinity of Author, Reader and Audience ...
Zang Jinsheng
2021 Vol. 6 (3): 5-11 [
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Three Orientations in Linguistic Research of China’s Urbanization
Shen Qi
2021 Vol. 6 (3): 12-13 [
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A Study on Language Management Process of Shanghai’s Crisis Communication during the COVID-19
Zheng Yongyan
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210301
Shanghai as an international metropolis provides a range of multilingual public services, but these services could not fully meet the needs of crisis communication during the COVID-19 outbreak. A large number of local university students who specialize in foreign language studies voluntarily translated important information of disease control and prevention measures into multiple languages as part of the city’s crisis management. This study adopted the framework of Language Management Theory and conducted semi-structure interviews to probe into the voluntary translation activities. Findings showed that the agents of crisis communication (including community workers and multilingual translators) exercised agency and drove the crisis communication language management process through several stages of Noting→Evaluation→Adjustment and Implementation→Feedback, in a bottom-up manner. Based on the findings, a language management process model of crisis communication was proposed, in which agents co-shaped several interconnected and iterative language management cycles. Findings also revealed the conflict between the implicit English monolingual ideology and the multilingual realities of urban settings and highlighted the dialectic interaction between micro-individual agency and macro-societal structure. It is recommended that a system be established to guarantee multilingual cities’ language management for crisis communication, expand the reserve of urban multilingual talents, and match individual agency with the grassroots needs.
2021 Vol. 6 (3): 14-24 [
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From “Peasant Workers” to Workers: Migrant Workers’ Identity in Urbanization
Dong Jie
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210302
In the process of China’s urbanization, the migrant population increases rapidly and immigrants of various kinds have received much attention in the past few decades. This study focuses on low-skilled immigrants or migrant workers in Beijing. Although migrant workers are mostly employed in industrial and services sectors, many of them are registered as “peasants” in Hukou (the household registration system), and therefore are usually labeled as “peasant workers”. However, some believe that the term is inappropriate and point out that it reflects their difficult situation in the urban settings. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in a Beijing urban village, this study collects and analyzes linguistic landscape data, interview transcripts, and observation diaries, and discusses migrant workers’ identity construction through their language use. The research finds that the migrant workers made efforts to shrug off the unwanted identity label of “peasant workers” and their children demonstrated strong identification with the urban society. However, they are treated differently from urban citizens in many ways and have a long way to go before they are recognized as true workers.
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Language Use and Urban Integration of New Intellectual Immigrants in Second-Tier Cities
Yin Yue
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210303
The results of multiple linear regression analysis show that: The influence of Putonghua ability in the primary stage (especially in the low-income stage) is very significant, and the influence is no longer significant with the increase of income range. But the ability of Putonghua has a significant impact on their social and psychological integration. In the same dialect area, the urban dialect ability has no significant influence on the economic income and social integration of the intellectual new immigrants, but it still has a significant impact on their psychological integration. Language preference has a significant impact on the urban integration of intelligent new immigrants, and those who tend to use Putonghua have a higher degree of urban integration. Based on the survey results, we should encourage new immigrants to use Putonghua more, strengthen the accurate popularization of older male groups in low-income industries and non Central Plains Mandarin areas, speed up the investigation of the language needs of new immigrants in second-tier cities, and formulate relevant countermeasures to help new immigrants integrate into the city.
2021 Vol. 6 (3): 35-44 [
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Language Services in the Process of Building Smart Cities
Guo Shujian and Shen Qi
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210304
Building Smart City is an important project in the current urban construction and development. This paper outlines the research and development of language services and proposes that current language services in smart cities feature three major aspects: digitized service, computer-mediated communication, and human-computer coupling. Although language data is playing an important role in the construction of smart cities, the restrictions in government investment, professional training, industry standards, and legislation have made language data an isolated island in the sea of big data in smart cities. In order to solve these problems, it is necessary to innovate talent training mode and enhance the institutional design of language data collection. On the other hand, it is also very key to encourage the research and application of language data in the construction of smart cities. At the same time, the digital transformation of language service has brought about a series of changes in the language industry, some possible problems such as the digital divide, monopoly, and inequitable opportunities in this process required more attention and examination. Our study of language services in smart cities needs to focus not only on the technical aspects but also on the humanistic concerns, especially the current state of digital living of the vulnerable population in the community.
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A Survey on the Language of the Elderly Migrants in Beijing
Fan Juanjuan
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210305
The phenomenon of migration and mobility of the elderly has become a social norm, but there are few studies on the language status of the elderly migrants. This paper investigates the language ability, language use, language attitude and social identity of elderly migrants who are not working or doing business in Beijing. The data are analyzed by regression analysis. The data show that social integration, the education level, and the beginning time of learning Putonghua have a significant predictive effect on the language ability of the elderly migrants. The language ability of the elderly migrants after coming to Beijing is significantly higher than that before coming to Beijing. The frequency of using Putonghua in all fields has increased. There is no obvious difference in emotion towards the dialect and the Putonghua. The analysis shows that the elderly migrants has unique language characteristics. After coming to Beijing, the elderly migrants show high consistency in language attitude and language use, and has initially formed a new speech community. The urban-urban flow and the rural-urban flow form the sub community of the elderly migrants.
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Diverse Views on Language Issues in China’s Urbanization
Zhong Ninghua, Wu Yue, Dang Lanling, Yu Weiqi, Wang Hailan, Han Han, Ge Jinhua and Guo Jiatang
2021 Vol. 6 (3): 68-75 [
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On the Role of Language in International Academic Discourse Power: The Status of Chinese
Wen Qiufang
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210306
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.
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Contemporary and Global Outlook of Chinese Language Studies
You Rujie
DOI: 10.19689/j.cnki.cn10-1361/h.20210307
Since the adoption of the reform and opening up policy, Chinese language has seen many changes in its phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, syntax and social function. Chinese language during this period can be called Contemporary Chinese, which is different in many aspects from other periods. One of predominant changes in terms of its speakers is that a large number of them are speakers of the national standard variety without any regional accent. In the period of Contemporary Chinese, structural change has happened in regionalects and hometown of Chinese diasporas across the world, speeding up the historical process of Chinese language internationalization at an unprecedent pace. Meanwhile, due to the unseen frequency of change and communication among overseas Chinese, making various regionalects previously seen in different Chinese diasporas shrink even more rapid as what happened to dialects within China. All of these have caused eventual disappearing of the differences between Chinese languages spoken in different ethno-linguistical communities across the world, which signifies a tendency towards integration. In view of this, we should adopt a broader prospective in studying Chinese language and drawing up language planning policies such as standardization. We should include overseas Chinese language and their dialects in the future vision and opt for contemporary and global outlook of Chinese language studies in the future.
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