A Research Overview Of The Relationship Between Popularizing Mandarin And Protecting Dialect

Our government has been popularizing mandarin as a primary task of national languagework Since1986. Then popularizing mandarin and protecting dialect has been the languagescholars generally concern.Popularizing mandarin became a kind of trend which cannot be halted. There are somany kinds of dialect in our country. For this serious condition has become the weaknesseshold the social development back.So popularizing mandarin has become the key tool andbridge between China and other countries in developing friendly relations, conductingbusiness and trade activities, making exchanges in culture and technology, as well as boostingmutual understanding. Then a need for unification in a kind of common spoken Chinesemandarin arises from all over China. But to protect and develop the dialects can be everyone’sresponsibility. For every kind of dialect can be seen a living fossil of local culture andcustoms. Any loss of a dialect can be seen the loss to the world. Which means that the mosteffective way to culture we know in this area was disappeared. In fact, popularizing mandarinand protecting the dialects are not contradictory in essence. We must respect for the law,conform to the development.Popularizing mandarin already became an important national policy in our country. Inthe same time, developing dialect also must be paid attention to. How to achieve the balancebetween them? Then a group of the experts considered the bilingual education and bidialectcan make our language reaching a harmonious state, the other experts believed that thedisappearing rate of bilingual and bidialect would weaken the language. The most effectiveway to protect dialect is continue to use it. And let people see the value and benefit of using it.This paper reviewed the research on related topics in academic field. And it also studiedthe relationship between popularizing mandarin and protecting the dialects in deeply. In orderto give some advises to the language planning for our country in the future.