Language Governance Of International City In Ai Age

Linguistic super-diversity generated by the more frequent transnational flows of population provides every country with much more diverse language resources,but also brings us new challenges on how to coordinate more complex language relations and how to deal with multilingual environments.Technological advances,especially the development of mobile Internet and machine intelligence are also playing a more important role on urban language life.In this context,exploring the new phenomena and new challenges that language life in international cities may face,especially the role that intelligent technology can play in multilingual communication has important theoretical and practical significance for the governance of urban language life.This study takes the public space of five international communities in Shanghai as the research site,and takes Shanghai;s transnational immigrants and public sector practitioners as research objects,proposing the following three research questions:1.How language resources are configured and appropriated in Shanghai everyday life?2.How the technologies and products of mobile internet and machine intelligence participate in language life?3.What opportunities and challenges AI technologies can provide for language governance in Shanghai?In order to answer the above research questions,this study follows the paradigm of interpretationism,taking the language landscape ethnography and network ethnography in qualitative research as the research approach,through the lens of spatial repertoire and personal communicative repertoire,usingobservation,interview and physical objects analysis to collect data.By applying content analysis,narrative analysis and moment analysis to explore how language resources are configured and employed in urban space.The research findings include: First,although Shanghai;s multilingual resource allocation presents hierarchical and variability characteristics,it is generally accepted that English as an international lingua franca responds to multilingual communication needs.The reason is that Shanghai;s multilingual communication needs are small and scattered,and institutions in the public sector lack the motive to allocate diverse language resources.Secondly,when faced with multilingual communication problems caused by language barriers,transnational immigrants and local public practitioners generally use translanguaging as an alternative strategy to meet the language communication needs of everyday communication.However,the effect of the practice of trnaslanguaging is limited by personal initiative and space,and cannot completely solve the problems in multilingual communication.Third,the popularity of mobile applications in Shanghai has provided people with multiple language resources and enhanced people's ability to communicate in multilingual context through trnaslanguaging.However,the effects of different people's application of related resources and tools vary widely.In addition to the limitations of the technology products themselves,the awareness and ability of individuals to use language resources to solve communication problems are important factors.Based on the above findings,this study proposes: 1.Confronting with high level of mobility and diversity,strengthening the availability and accessibility of language resources based on material forms in the spatial repertoire is more effective than improving the foreign language ability of local employees.Cultivate and enhance people;s ability and awareness of multilingual communication using all available linguistic resources and tools(including material resources),and transform personal motivation-driven random translingual practice intoAstable super-linguistic ability through language policy.Mobile internet and machine intelligence related technology are the most important resources and tools that people can call when they are in multilingual communication.Therefore,the core content of cultivating people;s translingual competence is to enhance their ability of using smart devices and mobile apps to solve communication problems.