BROADCAST MEDIA LANGUAGE RESOURCES RESEARCH

National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center, Broadcast Media Language Branch was founded in September the 15th 2005. This center will monitor the resources of broadcasting media language continuously. The government will announce the Monitoring results. At the same time, this center is also an organization which do some research in applied linguistics. The government and the interrelated organizations could establish language policy and broadcasting media language policy for common use by the research results.

Broadcast Media Language Branch is established by Ministry of Education, the State Administration of Radio Film and Television, and Communication University of China. The leadership team of this center is composed of leadership in interrelated ministries, Communication University of China and famous experts in China. The academic committee of this research center is also set up. This committee will recognize the relative achievement. Simultaneously, these experts will give some suggestions about the development of this center.

This branch will gather, arrange and process the media languages. After doing the base work, our target is to construct a corpus of media languages. We can get some statistical data and parameter from this corpus. We believe that this project is benefit for doing some research in Chinese Mandarin and establishing language policy.

Broadcast Media Language Branch is one of National Language Resources Monitoring and Research Center. Other branches are founded in Beijing Language and Culture University, Huazhong Normal University, Jinan University, and Xiamen University.