普通话
政府(语言学)
中国
语言政策
价值(数学)
政治学
同化(音韵学)
人口
背景(考古学)
社会学
语言学
教育学
法学
地理
计算机科学
人口学
哲学
考古
机器学习
作者
Jason Cong Lin,Liz Jackson
标识
DOI:10.1080/2005615x.2021.2006117
摘要
In the last decades, the propagation of Mandarin has been carried out across the People’s Republic of China as de facto language assimilation. It has achieved great success in that over 80 percent of the population can speak Mandarin, but it has also had devastating effects on minority language learning, maintenance, and use. Meanwhile, the Chinese government continues to strongly promote Mandarin nationwide. This paper applies summative content analysis to examine the reasons the government provides for promoting Mandarin in its official policies, government reports, and news. Our findings show that in official documents, the value of promoting Mandarin typically prevails over the importance of protecting minority languages. Additionally, the government tends to equate minority assimilation with progress and advancement. In this context, we argue that to enhance conditions of minorities in society, the government should work to ensure that mastering Mandarin is a free choice of minorities, and regard Mandarin and minority languages and their speakers as of equal status and value in society.
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