Linguists, Literacy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
Linguists, Literacy, and the Law of Unintended Consequences
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语言学家、读写能力和意外后果法则
DOI：
10.1353/ol.2005.0011
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2004
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K. Rehg
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作者：
K. Rehg
1970年，夏威夷大学太平洋和亚洲语言学研究所发起了一项为期14年的努力，旨在记录和支持密克罗尼西亚的语言。这项工作的第一个目标是编写这些语言的语法和词典，第二个目标是对埃塞俄比亚教育工作者进行双语教育原则和实践方面的培训，第三个目标是编写本地教材供埃塞俄比亚学校使用。本文评估了这些努力的后果，无论是有意的还是无意的。特别是，它侧重于“标准正字法”的概念，以及在密克罗尼西亚和其他地方，这一概念有时如何阻碍本地语言扫盲的发展。更有争议的是，它认为，在某些情况下，白话扫盲计划的传统目标可能会适得其反;也就是说，他们可能会，而不是增强语言的活力，事实上，削弱它。
In 1970, the Pacific and Asian Linguistics Institute of the University of Hawai'i launched a fourteen-year effort designed to document and support the languages of Micronesia. The first goal of this undertaking was to prepare grammars and dictionaries of these languages, the second was to train Micronesian educators in the principles and practices of bilingual education, and the third was to develop vernacular materials for use in Micronesian schools. This paper assesses the consequences of those endeavors, both intended and unintended. In particular, it focuses upon the concept of "standard orthography" and how that notion, in Micronesia and elsewhere, has sometimes impeded the development of vernacular language literacy. More contentiously, it considers the possibility that the conventional goals of vernacular literacy programs might, in some circumstances, be counter-productive; that is, rather than enhancing linguistic vitality, they might, in fact, diminish it.