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本帖最后由 fiefuyt 于 2009-6-29 13:16 编辑
It is always said that where there is a different language, there is a unique culture. Each language is a mirror of the culture of a certain geographical region, for the origin, growth and distinction of each language is accompanied by the beginning, thriving, changing, ebb and flow of a culture.In this society with highly advanced technology, unfortunately many minor languages are in danger of extincion since they are used by fewer and fewer people.
According to statistics, 50% of languages in the world will fade at the speed of one language every two week on average at least in next century. No doubt, the situation of many of the world's languages on the verge of extinction is tense.
People are inevitably confronted with the issue that whether the governments of counties in which their languages on the brim of extinction should intervene to prevent such lesser-known languages becoming extinct.
Some insist that in the process of globalization,
the extinction of lesser-known languages is inevitable and governments can do nothing about it.
Others assert that the opposite is more reasonable.
From my perspective,
I'm convinced that we should take this for account from two aspects:
the short-term and the long-term.
From the short term, prevention of lesser-known languages not only needs goverments but also can through other means. On one hand,
governments can provide the strong support to effectively prevent the extinct languages for the issue of language relates to many factors such as society, economic, psychology, culture, politics. Moreover, governments can promote the heritage of languages by vigorous publicizing the link between the languages and the culture via media, via education, for instance, adding the learning the endangered languages to course, via law, such as making the lesser-known languages as the second, the third, and even the forth official languages.
As we all know that the people of continental Europe cling tenaciously to their threatened languages. The French government even assembles many academic authorities to obliterate borrowed words in order to resist the language assimilation and keep the purity of their own language.On the other hand, non-government organizations can work as a subsidiary force.Non-government organizations such as UNESCO and the British Library
have taken action to rescue the wealth. So governments and non-governments in which the lesser-known languages are spoken have the duty to protect the form of civilization.
From the long term, in this era of globalization, our world are becoming the earth village.
Economic tides sweeping the world,with merely the priority of profits, companies like Nike locate their factories in those poor countries, Vietnam for instance, for their low price manual work. On one hand, they offered splendid candies in economic development such as huge mounts of job vaccancies. On the other, the invasion of culture is conducted by their homeland executives applying their own management. Gradually, factories workers picked up the idioms and nuances from their bosses with respects or else for the sake of getting approval of the management. Years later, the impact inside certain world-known company can prevail in an area, even a country. For civilians, the invaded language is of something profitable, while their home tongue may be a kind of signal for poverty or so. They start leaving their homeland in search for better life and hide their home tongue deep inside their hearts and seldom use it since then. More and more people seek for better life with the communication of other language.
What the government can do is only to encourage museums to document this culture and through media to alert people about this phenomenon. All these strategy will not affect the people who work or tend to work aboard. How to own the profits is what arouses attention of many. They are simply apply the tool of another language to improve their own life! What can the government do? Their people shows ignorance of their own culture all because of poverty. In this way, their culture may be true to diminish in the near future, unless their economic power has grown tremedous enough to attract their people back to nurture the growth of this language, and further the culture behind it. Ironicly, it is because the desire of economic strength that the country suffers loss and may later earn it back.Therefore,the extinction of lesser-known languages is an irresistible trend which no one can change it.
In sum,the prevention of the lesser-known languages is indispensible and essential to protect the diversity which is the interaction of ideas that is one of the major generators of human invention.And in long term,
with fewer and fewer left using these languages, some fo these languages are inescapably lost, others are losing. The lesser-known languages of vulnerable groups are victims in the the process of globalization and
very link which are influenced at the earliest and suffer the loss at the soonest.
在 sakuraanne 斑竹和小欣提出的宝贵意见下,我大力修改了这篇文章,耗费了一整个上午,大改特改,现在已经是面目全非了,心里实在还是很没底,不知道改出来究竟怎样,希望 sakuraanne 斑竹和小欣能再抽空帮我看看,万分感谢:)
PS:弱弱地问一句,为什么我的WORD没有自动纠正的功能呀?贴进去后都没有出现绿或红的线线,搞的我出了好多拼写错误,哎````` |
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