国外家庭语言规划研究综述(2000—2016)

An Overview of the International Research on Family Language Policy(2000 – 2016)

本文以《多语和多文化发展期刊》《双语教育和双语制国际期刊》和《语言政策》三家期刊2000—2016年关于家庭语言规划研究的143篇文章为对象,从时间分布、对象分布、研究方法等方面进行了数量统计,并从理论基础和研究主题两个方面进行了分析。结果显示十几年来国外家庭语言规划研究有明显上升趋势,但在研究对象和研究方法方面都存在分布不平衡的情况。文章介绍了高被引的5个理论,分析、介绍了家庭语言规划的内外部因素、工作机制和主体间性的内容。最后文章评述了国外研究的贡献并结合中国国情提出相关建议。

This article reviews international research trends in Family Language Policy(FLP) study in the past seventeen years through an analysis of 143 papers published in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism and Language Policy during 2000 – 2016. In addition to mapping the papers' publication time, the research methods and participants, content analysis of theoretical frameworks and thematic foci of FLP was also conducted. The analysis shows that there is growing attention to the topic of FLP; however, the geological distributions of participants and the proportional use of qualitative, quantitative and mixed methods are uneven. This article summarizes the fi ve highly used theoretical frameworks and the top thematic foci that include internal-external factors of FLP, its working mechanism and its inter-subjectivity. The article concludes with a summary of the 143 papers' collective contribution to FLP research and suggestions for Chinese researchers with interests in FLP.