Languaging territorial assemblage: regional integration through language policy practices in southern China

IF 1.7 2区 文学 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
Jasper Zhao Zhen Wu
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This article investigates the relationship between language policy and spatial production. The regulation of language is inextricably tied to extra-linguistic—social, cultural, political and economic –processes permeating the broader sociolinguistic ecology. The article argues that language policy creates territorial space in this otherwise open ecology. Territories emerge from the tension between two dimensions of language policy: the free-flowing language activities in circulation and the coordinated regulation of boundaries in space. The article examines the relation between these two dimensions through the concepts of ‘languaging’ and ‘assemblage’. This theoretical argument is illustrated with the developing Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area in southern China as an example. The example suggests two theoretical implications. First, language policy regulates not only linguistic features or varieties but the coordination between linguistic and extra-linguistic practices of languaging. Second, territorial spaces are created not by externally imposed orders but by assemblages formed within the processes of languaging.

语言的地域组合:通过中国南方的语言政策实践实现区域一体化
本文探讨了语言政策与空间生产之间的关系。对语言的管理与语言之外的社会、文化、政治和经济进程密不可分,这些进程渗透到更广泛的社会语言生态中。文章认为,语言政策在这一原本开放的生态环境中创造了地域空间。领土产生于语言政策两个层面之间的紧张关系:自由流通的语言活动和空间边界的协调管理。文章通过 "语言 "和 "组合 "的概念来研究这两个方面之间的关系。文章以中国南部发展中的粤港澳大湾区为例,阐述了这一理论论点。这个例子有两个理论意义。首先,语言政策不仅规范语言特征或语言品种,而且规范语言实践中语言与语言外实践之间的协调。其次,领土空间不是由外部强加的秩序创造的,而是由语言使用过程中形成的组合创造的。
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Language Sciences
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期刊介绍: Language Sciences is a forum for debate, conducted so as to be of interest to the widest possible audience, on conceptual and theoretical issues in the various branches of general linguistics. The journal is also concerned with bringing to linguists attention current thinking about language within disciplines other than linguistics itself; relevant contributions from anthropologists, philosophers, psychologists and sociologists, among others, will be warmly received. In addition, the Editor is particularly keen to encourage the submission of essays on topics in the history and philosophy of language studies, and review articles discussing the import of significant recent works on language and linguistics.
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