美国语言政策与其对中国向国际推广汉语的启示.pdf

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to many individuals who have helped me a lot in various ways in the writing of this thesis. I would first express my sincere gratitude to my supervisor, Prof. Li Guinan, who has shepherded me into the world of language policy research. And from the first to the final draft, there are his detailed refining even for some grammatical mistakes and misspellings. Then, I must also express my heartfelt thanks to Prof. Li Xiao, Prof. Lu Yun, Prof. Yao Benbiao, Prof. Chen Guangwei, Prof. Huang Dou, Prof. Yang Yuguo, Prof. Liu Jiamei, Prof. Zou Changhong, as well as Prof. Qin Xiugui from Guangxi University for Nationalities and many other professors, for their patient instruction and careful guidance in my study and the construction of the thesis. In addition, I am especially grateful to my classmates who provide me with many relevant books and materials. Finally, I would like to thank my family for their supports and encouragement. Abstract Language policy, the government‘s declarations or tradition and culture‘s formulation on language use and usage of a particular area, is the primary mechanism of organizing, managing and manipulating language behaviors. As an open system, language policy theories are always researched with other theories, such as linguistic culture, educational policy etc. In this thesis, theories of ecolinguistics and theory of economics of language are adopted, the theory of ecolinguistics as its philosophical foundation and theory of economics of language as economic foundation. Based on the analysis of the history of American English and the reality of American language policy, it comes to the conclusion that the American language policy is characterized as ―maintaining the