摘要
语言学家David Crystal认为20世纪90年代在世界范围内显现出“革命性”的三大语言趋势：英语成为全球性语言、语言危机加重、因特网成为第三交际媒介，而且这三大趋势已从根本上改变了全球的语言生态。基于cryStal近年来连续出版的一系列论著，本文对其“语言革命说”的主要观点，特别是其对21世纪语言生态和语言主题的分析展望及应对思考作了简要综述。
David Crystal,an internationally noted linguist,advocates that ever since the 1990s there have been three major trends：the emergence of English as the world＇ s first truly global language, the crisis facing huge numbers of languages which are currently endangered or dying, and the radical elfeet on language of the arrival of Intemet technology. And he argues that the three trends have fundamentally altered the world＇s linguistic ecology. Based on a series books abut these topics Crystal has published in the past few years,this paper presents a summary of his main ideas of ＂the language revolution＂,and his analysis and reflections on language ecology and language themes in the 21st century in particular.
出处
《外语与外语教学》
CSSCI
北大核心
2006年第11期8-12,共5页
Foreign Languages and Their Teaching
关键词
英语全球化
语言生态
网络交际
语言革命
English globalization
language ecology
intemet communication
language revolution
