语言中的博物馆和语言博物馆——论濒危语言典藏和语言博物馆建设

Museum in Language and Museum of Language:A Discussion on the Collection of Endangered Language Texts and the Construction of Language Museum

对于濒危语言这个热点领域,出现了语言博物馆的设想和构建,试图通过人为建立的博物馆来保存、再现语言这个天然的博物馆及其所存储的人类文明成果。正是在存储、传承文化遗产这一点上,语言和博物馆这两个平凡熟悉但看似不相关的事物发生了交集和联系,开启了一个人类文化史上具有重要意义的新领域。而与此同时,语言博物馆作为一个跨学科的新事物,对于博物馆的发展和语言典藏的进步也展现出广阔的学科发展前景和理论研究空间。

Among the hot issues in the field of endangered language studies is the suggestion that language museums be built as an effort to preserve and represent the natural museum of languages and the achievement of human civilization stored in those languages.Storage and preservation are the common junctions between the seemingly unrelated entities of language and museum.Language museums will open a new and significant field in human cultural history.As a multi-disciplinary undertaking,language museum will also create space for collection development and research for the general museums.