A Study Of American Language Policy And Its Enlightenment On The International Promotion Of Chinese

Language policy, the government's declarations or tradition and culture's formulation on language use and usage of a particular area, is the primary mechanism of organizing, managing and manipulating language behaviors. As an open system, language policy theories are always researched with other theories, such as linguistic culture, educational policy etc. In this thesis, theories of ecolinguistics and theory of economics of language are adopted, the theory of ecolinguistics as its philosophical foundation and theory of economics of language as economic foundation.Based on the analysis of the history of American English and the reality of American language policy, it comes to the conclusion that the American language policy is characterized as"maintaining the central status of English and repelling other languages", and it is not difficult to find that the American language policy is essentially the policy of American English spread at home and abroad. From the perspective of ecolinguistics and economics of language, this thesis analyzes positive and negative effects the American language policy has brought to the U.S. itself and the whole world. But no language policy is perfect, succeed and failed U.S. experience on language promotion is very enlightening for us on the exploration of international Chinese promotion.And still from the perspective of ecolinguistics and economics of language, language spread and promotion is crucial to human civilization's preservation, but also an inevitable and economical strategy for a country to meet the challenge of economic globalization. China has a long history of Chinese promotion, but a systematic international promotion of Chinese just began after the establishment of People's Republic of China. Chinese international promotion is an arduous task, we need to continuously explore appropriate Chinese international promotion policy under current national and world conditions.