摘要
语言是最重要的民族属性之一,但不是唯一的属性,也非确定民族认同的必要条件。以语言定义民族、以民族组成国家是起源于近代德国的语言民族主义理论的核心内容,在历史上起过正面作用,也起过负面影响。语言的民族属性标记功能在近代德国和法国表现突出,但在英国、爱尔兰等则相对弱化,甚至若有若无。同主要欧洲国家相比,中国近代和现代语言规划工作更强调语言作为交际手段的工具价值和实用效率。
A comparative analysis is made between China and four major European countries of Germany, France, UK and Ireland with regard to the role that language and language planning have played in the development of nationalism, and in the creation, consolidation and reform of modern states. Linguistic nationalism originating in the eighteenth-and nineteenth-century Germany has manifested itself in different forms in the countries under study. In comparison with the situation in major European countries, language planning in China since the late nineteenth century has been focusing mainly on the utilitarian role of language, rather than on its role as a symbolic marker of group identity.
出处
《外语教学与研究》
CSSCI
北大核心
2008年第1期4-13,共10页
Foreign Language Teaching and Research
