On the Transformation of Language Life and Language Governance in the Era of Digital Transformation
Decades'digital revolution has initiated a digital era of modern civilization with reshaping of social life.Accordingly,social and language practices have entered an era of transformation,with systematic changes in features of language users,topics,interactions,and languages in use,such as ongoing creation of new expressions,evolving language behaviors as well as emerging hot topics.Silhouetted against changes in social life brought about by digital technology and transformation,this paper attempts to analyze the systematic features in language life transformation and to elaborate on the challenges in governing digital language life,the complexity of which requires the convergence of power and efforts of stakeholders including the government,academia,the education sector,institutions and organizations,and social individuals,in giving full play to stakeholders'agency in language governance and creation of a harmonious digital language life.
digital transformationlanguage lifelanguage governance