Properly use the motherland's language and script to build a healthy Chinese life
In June 1951, the "People's Daily" published the title "Use the motherland's language correctly, and fight for language purity and health!"
"", and serialized "Speech on Grammar and Rhetoric" by Mr. Lu Shuxiang and Zhu Dexi. It has been 70 years.
Today, China's social development has entered a new era in an all-round way. Under an open and tolerant social environment, Chinese life in various fields is rich and colorful and full of vitality. At the same time, some new situations and problems have emerged.
With the popularization of the Internet, network communication and network communication have become an important part of Chinese life. The application of language and characters has greatly expanded. Traditional culture has a new way of inheriting. The style of the times can be fully recorded and displayed in time. A large number of new words and expressions can be fully recorded and displayed in time. New expressions are conceived in a new context.
In the new language life, the popularization of self-media and the diversification of concepts have also been accompanied by a certain degree of weakening of the sense of norms, anomie of discourse behavior, and lagging of public communication management.
In online forums, Weibo, WeChat official accounts, short video platforms and other self-media, in many group chat platforms, in many online video subtitles, the use of language and text is more and more common.
The text and punctuation in many Internet articles are confused, and some deliberately funny homophonic words even have the tendency of "Xifeichengshi" (such as "Shenma" and "Meizhi"); Regulating the random use of foreign words, dialects and native dialects, together with some unreasonable sentences, have weakened the binding force of the national language norms, and also undermined the social function of Putonghua as the national language.
Vulgar words, harsh and insulting words, manic and exaggerated words, etc., pollute social language life.
As far as the impact is reached, the whole society’s language standards, language ethics, and language civilization construction are facing challenges.
Irregularities and inaccuracy in newspapers, books, and official documents of party and government agencies, enterprises and institutions with low editing quality have risen; mechanical copying of various article templates, such as speeches, plans, summaries, experiences, and essays, is popular Idioms are popular; many teenagers are indifferent to language norms, misuse non-standard "Internet words" in their compositions, and do not use punctuation correctly; problematic slogans containing typos or even absurd sentences are often seen in the public eye... The language literacy and language reflected in them The mentality, style and morality are both worrying.
Faced with such an ecology, many people of insight have called for active multi-party cooperation to strengthen the evaluation, supervision and governance of the network environment and the language application of the whole society, and strive to improve the standardization of contemporary Chinese language.
In the language life of the new era, we must use positive and healthy as the criterion, distinguish between popular and vulgar, distinguish between contributing true innovations and unprovoked false innovations, and further emphasize the comprehensive promotion of Mandarin pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammatical norms, and follow The law of language development makes reasonable choices for various language variables that affect Chinese life, guarantees the healthy development of the contemporary Chinese ecosystem, and continuously improves the national language ability and national language ability.
This is not only the mission of linguists and language workers, but also depends on the joint efforts of all sectors of society.
(Author: Chen Yi, professor and doctoral supervisor of Harbin Normal University)