“大汉字”观念与方言字规范

Greater Chinese Characters:The Shared Writing System of the Chinese across the World

我国的语言文字规范工作一向缺乏对方言字的关注。在“大华语”等开放、宽松、包容的新语言观渐成共识的背景下,这一官方规划中的不足更显突出,在理论和实践中带来了许多不容忽视的问题。借鉴“大华语”等概念的核心思想,文字规范工作也应当适时树立“大汉字”观念,扩大规范对象的范围,在通用汉字的基础上囊括必要的方言字和域外汉字,进而从根本上解决目前存在的多种问题。在对具体的方言字进行整理审定时,可以依据体系性、稳定性和可理解性三项标准加以规范。

As the lingua franca of the Chinese people across the world,Greater Chinese has been proposed to represent various Mandarin varieties spoken at home and abroad.Given the emerging consensus on taking up a more positive and flexible attitude in language planning,we,for the protection and promotion of linguistic diversity,should reconsider the status quo of dialect characters being neglected in the orthographic standardisation of Chinese.Dialect characters are a necessity for Chinese people who speak dialects and some Mandarin varieties,and also a complement to general characters,thus deserving an equal status in the family of Greater Chinese Characters.A set of criteria consisting of systematicity,stability and intelligibility can be adopted in judging the reasonability of particular dialect characters.