互联网空间的世界语言活力及其成因  

The Vitality and Distribution Reasons of World Languages in the Cyberspace

作　　者：郭书谏 沈骑 GUO Shujiang;SHEN Ji

机构地区：[1]上海外国语大学语言研究院,上海200083 [2]同济大学外国语学院,上海200092

出　　处：《语言文字应用》2019年第1期27-36,共10页Applied Linguistics

基　　金：国家语委重大项目(ZDA135-3)课题资助

摘　　要：本文试图通过构建基于经济、人口、内容、媒体和知识五种因素的互联网空间语言活力指标体系,分析世界各种语言的活力指数和排名情况。在此基础上,进一步解释世界语言的活力指数分布及其原因。研究发现:世界各种语言的活力指数呈现不平衡的长尾分布;世界各语言呈现层级化特征。因为随着互联网技术的发展、在线言语社区的形成,个体的语言选择更加倾向于语言层级体系中的上位语言,人口、经济、媒体等资源逐步集中于几种桥梁语言,而大部分地方性语言和弱势语言则在这一资源集中化的过程中失去活力,成为语言活力指数当中的"长尾"。This paper proposes a five-factor index system for language vitality evaluation,taking the factors of economy output,population,web content,social media and knowledge into consideration. The index system aims to examine the vitality of world major languages and their rankings and explain the possible reasons for the distribution of the indexes. The findings show that the vitality indexes of world languages are distributed in an unbalanced and long-tailed manner as a hierarchy system. The reasons are that with the development of the internet and the online speech community,people tend to learn and use the language in the higher position of the language hierarchy system. Moreover,the bridge languages have attracted more users,economic resources and media coverage,but most local languages and minor languages are devitalized during the process and show the long-tailed distribution in the index system.

关 键 词：语言活力 网络语言 语言濒危 语言政策 

分 类 号：H002[语言文字—语言学]