关键词: 语言管理; 语言治理; 语言服务; 政府购买服务; 政府购买语言服务

Abstract:

Government procurement of language services (GPLS) is an effective path to promote the transformation of government language management functions and optimize the supply of government language services. Over the past decade or so, some administrative institutions in China have carried out exploratory practices of purchasing language services from service organizations, and GPLS has been successively included in the guidance catalogues for government procurement of services by the central government and some local governments. Drawing on relevant research results in the fields of government procurement of services and language services, this paper firstly clarifies the concept and connotations of GPLS. Then, based on public data provided by channels such as the China Government Procurement Network/China Government Procurement of Services Information Platform and Tianyancha commercial data platform, combined with results of telephone interviews and field surveys, this paper summarizes the characteristics of GPLS in terms of subjects, procedures and contents. Furthermore, this paper summarizes the achievements of GPLS over the past decade or more in the areas of subject participation, market cultivation and resource integration, analyzes the existing problems in scope division, undertaking capacity and institutional construction of GPLS, and puts forward relevant suggestions.

Keywords: language management; language governance; language services; government procurement of services; government procurement of language services