中国英语谬论

IF 1.2 2区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS
Yiyang Li
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在过去的几十年里,选择合适的术语来代表中国英语的多样性已经演变成一场推广广受欢迎的术语“中国英语”的运动。在何(2020:14)的《世界英语中的中国英语:专业领域的教育与使用》一书中,他引用了一句中国古话“无名无实”,以证明中国英语变体的重塑是合理的。然而,最初,“中国英语”一词并没有自动赢得竞标;许多其他术语也被认为是具有代表性的术语,包括“中国有色英语”(Huang, 1988),“中国式英语”(Gui, 1988),“汉化英语”(Zhang, 1997);金,2002;Jiang, 2003),甚至广受批评的“中式英语”(Wang, 1999;壮族,2000;琼,沃尔夫(Wolff, 2003)曾经风光一时。渐渐地,中国英语的学术认可开始增长。然而,有人可能会问:在中国,英语的独特性是什么,以至于人们花了几十年的时间,仅仅通过更新术语来维护英语变体的所有权?
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The China English fallacy
Over the past decades, the pageantry of selecting the appropriate terminology for representing the Chinese English variety has evolved into a movement promoting the widely celebrated term, China English. In He’s (2020: 14) book of Chinese English in World Englishes: Education and Use in the Professional World , an old Chinese saying, ‘without a legitimate name, without authority to the words’, is conjured to justify the rebranding of the Chinese English variety. However, initially, the term ‘China English’ did not automatically win the bid; many other terms were also pitched for being the representative terminology, including ‘Chinese colored English’ (Huang, 1988), ‘Chinese-style English’ (Gui, 1988), ‘Sinicized English’ (Zhang, 1997; Jin, 2002; Jiang, 2003), and even the widely criticized ‘Chinglish’ (Wang, 1999; Zhuang, 2000; Qiong & Wolff, 2003) had its day in the sun. Gradually, scholarly endorsements of China English begin to grow. However, one might wonder: What is the uniqueness of English in China that could trigger such decades of efforts to assert the ownership of an English variety through a mere terminological update?
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English Today
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