语言人类学及其在中国的发展

On Linguistic Anthropology and its Development in China

语言人类学是一门交叉学科,它是在人类学的学科背景下产生和发展起来的。西方的语言人类学经历了田野工作、比较分析、理论概括几个阶段。中国是一个多民族多语种的国家,语言人类学的发展有其广阔的基础,加强语言人类学的研究不仅有利于人类学的学科建设,同时对保护语言文化的多样性、不同的语言文化族群相互尊重以及和谐对话都具有重要意义。

Linguistic Anthropology is a crossing subject. It emerges and develops in the background of Anthropology, Western linguistic Anthropology goes through several periods, such as field - work, comparative analysis and theoretical generalization. There are many ethnic groups and many languages in China. The development of Linguistic Anthropology has a wide base in China. The research of Linguistic Anthropology is beneficial to the construction of Anthropology subject, Meanwhile, it holds important meanings to protect the diversify of languages and cultures, to make different language ethnic groups respect each other, and to make language ethnic groups dialogue harmoniously.