From prestige language to common language: Linguistic contact and regional identities in the Asian history

在“声望语言”和“共同语言”概念的基础上，我们试图从代表这些地区文化身份的多元文化共同体的角度来重建对16~ 19世纪世纪亚洲历史的解释。在这项研究中，我们展示了两个文化领域。一种是以汉语和阿拉伯语为代表的“威望语”被改造为“共同语”;另一种是以马来语和波斯语为代表的传统“威望语”，由于殖民危机而被新的共同语--印尼语、印度土著语和英语所取代。

On the basis of the concept of "prestige language" and "common language", we attempt to reconstruct the interpretation of the 16~19th century Asian history from an angle of multi-cultural communities which represented the cultural identities of these areas. And in this study, we demonstrated two cultural areas. One is the “prestige language” such as Chinese and Arabic language areas which had been reconstructed to “common language”, and the other, such as Malay and Persian language areas-the conventional “prestige language” which were in crisis of colonization, had been replaced by the new common languages-Indonesian, Indian indigenous languages, and English.