乡村社区的社会语言学价值阐释

Value of rural speech community in sociolinguistics

乡村社区是社会语言学研究的重要对象。西方学者重视乡村社区的社会语言学研究并获得许多重要发现,而中国的社会语言学发展存在"重城市轻农村"的倾向。当前我国城市化和社会流动为乡村社区的社会语言学研究带来了有利条件。中国乡村社区的社会语言学价值在于,它能够拓宽社会语言学理论适用范围,揭示不同文化背景下乡村社区的语言规律,对于促进语言变异规律研究和促进社会语言学在中国的发展都具有积极意义。

Rural speech community is an important research object in sociolinguistics. While scholars in western countries place a high premium on rural speech community, there has been a tendency of ＂city as important but countryside as no value＂ in China. The contemporary urbanization and social mobility in China will bring great opportunities for the study of rural speech community in soeiolinguistics. The value of rural speech communities in China is that it can broaden the scope of the theories of sociolinguistics and re- veal the language laws of rural communities in different cultural contexts. It will also have positive signifi- cance in promoting the study of language variation as well as the development of sociolinguistics in China.