Background and Significance of the Construction of Hezhou University Language Museum

Abstract

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 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. Project profile of language museum in Hezhou University Dialect is precious intangible cultural heritage and also cultural carrier. Linguistic diversity is an important condition for keeping cultural diversity. We try to set up local language museum in Hezhou where language resources are rich, utilize modern technical means to keep and display local rich linguistic data of dialects and verbal culture and summarize relevant experience in language museum construction. Under the guidance of the idea of preserving and protecting language resources, language research team and relevant departments of Hehzou University has gradually carried out construction of language museum through explorations for over 20 years. Because Hehzou University is in the northeast of Guangxi and at the boundary of Hunan and Guangdong, linguistic geographical distribution here is complex, which offers rich resource guarantee for museum construction. An effective approach of protecting linguistic and cultural diversity is to construct language museum in the region rich in language resource and preserve diversified active dialects. In terms of opportunities and challenges, multiple departments of the university started to propose preparations for language museum construction as early as 2012. Museum decoration stage came at the end of 2015. In the article of Exploration of Language Museum Construction Mode in Regions Rich in Language Resource (1) , we preliminarily introduce preconditions, preliminary scheme, implementation plan, problems and development prospect of language museum construction in Hezhou University. Here, we mainly talk about historical background and practical significance of museum construction.