Background and Significance of the Construction of Hezhou University Language Museum

摘要

Languages and dialects are valuable intangible cultural heritage, and economic globalization and integration directly are eroding this precious heritage, constituting two opposit sides of a contradictory. Building a language museum can make two opposit sides, to some extent, change from opposition to unification. This action has important practical significance: to cultivate the public's protection consciousness of language resources, to promote language harmony and safeguarding national security, to promote the construction of large database for language research and provide new ideas for the combination of teaching and scientific research, etc. Both at home and abroad, there have been a lot of theories about construction of a languge museum, but practices mainly go on in other developed countries and regions such as Europe and the United States. Domestic language museums mainly base on Web sites or network digital forms. The construction of a language museum which preserve and exhibiting the living languages ergengtly needs an organization to implement. In this context, Hezhou University has started he construction of a language museum, combinating of theory and practice of it.