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Goals and Duties of Linguistics in China at the Turn of the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2024

Huang Changzhu*
Affiliation:
Chinese Academy of Social Sciences

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The twenty-first century is close at hand. This great historical turning-point demands that we contemplate the future as best we can. Confronting the third millennium, many disciplines, linguistics included, have reached a time to take stock. At this stage it is helpful to cast a retrospective glance on linguistics in China during the past half-century to evaluate the gains here at the transition between the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © ICPHS 1999

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