语言偏见和语言平等——从爱德华·萨皮尔《语言论—言语研究导论》看语言的优劣观

Language prejudice and language equal——Viewing on good and bad of language from Language:An Introduction to the Study of Speech written by Edward·Sapir

人们自身在自觉不自觉中形成的语言偏见或语言歧视,使得语言的使用者给语言穿上了身份高低等非语言因素的外衣。通过利用社会语言学家拉波夫、历史语言学家徐通锵和人类语言学家萨皮尔的相关理论对一些自发的语言事实进行分析,得出语言并没有高低、优劣之分,即语言是平等的事实。

People＇s language prejudice or language bias formed in consciousness and unconsciousness make language put on the appearance with high or low non - language factor. By applying correlative theories held by social linguis- tics Labov, historical linguistics Xu Tongjiang and human linguistics Sapir analyzes some spontaneous language facts, puts forward language can not be classified into high or low, good or bad, namely, language is equal.