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[경제] Enacting a Multilingual Policy for Economic Growth: Exploiting the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor Project to Create Linguistic Harmony in Pakistan
파키스탄 국외연구자료 연구보고서 - Spring Nature 발간일 : 2021-08-23 등록일 : 2022-09-30 원문링크
A multilingual workforce, as research on language and economy manifests, is comparatively advantageous for economic growth. However, there is a scarcity of economic models that are built for or by a multilingual human resource. One continued obstruction in the creation of economies that benefit (from) a linguistically diverse community is the dominance of a single language or a lingua franca such as English. It is not easy to create a balance between a dominating language and minor or local languages. Pakistan, a linguistically diverse country, faces an identical situation where English, spoken by only 8%, and now Mandarin, are heavily used at the expense of its vernaculars in the operationalization of the China–Pakistan Economic Corridor project (CPEC-P). This chapter proposes manipulating a multimillion-dollar economic project, the CPEC-P, as a platform to elevate the status of Pakistan’s national and local languages against English and Mandarin through a multilingual economic policy enactment. The chapter, being the first of its kind, starts by introducing the issue of linguistic imbalance in Pakistan followed by an overview of the CPEC-P and its contribution to the development of English and Mandarin. Then a discussion on the challenges and issues caused by the development of selective languages and their role in the decline of linguistic diversity is provided. The chapter concludes with a proposal for the creation of language harmony in Pakistan through the utilization of the CPEC-P as an economic platform.
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