世纪之交的语言随想——摘自一个社会语言学研究者的手记

Some linguistic thoughts at the advent of the new century——Notes from a sociolinguistic researcher

Having specified the two remarkable features of China's sociolinguistics, i.e. it gives prominence to its practicality and cultural background, the author considers it is a pity that Chinese sociolinguists failed to seize every opportunity to make investigations during the last 20 years of development and he points out that full-fledged use of internet to make easier, wider and more effective sociolinguistie investigation could be a remedy. He opposes the anticipation that English (or Chinese, or any other language) would be the dominant language in the world in the future.

Having specified the two remarkable features of China's sociolinguistics, i.e. it gives prominence to its practicality and cultural background, the author considers it is a pity that Chinese sociolinguists failed to seize every opportunity to make investigations during the last 20 years of development and he points out that full-fledged use of internet to make easier, wider and more effective sociolinguistic investigation could be a remedy. He opposes the anticipation that English (or Chinese, or any other language) would be the dominant language in the world in the future.