关键词: 国家语言能力, 国民语言能力, 现状, 反思

Abstract: In linguistic community of China, the definition of “national language capacity” has since long been cumbersome in clarifying the interrelation between nation and citizens and the dealing with the overlapping among classic definitions. It requires review of its denotations and its sub classifications. This paper adopts the redefinition of “national language capacity” as its point of departure and its dimensions and features as the range of literature review, describing the state of art of “national language capacity” in China nowadays. It aims to generalize the contributions and imperfections in this field, and further to give prospects and relevant suggestions. This review shows: first, research in national dimension has succeeded in theoretical planning but not arrived at linking it to the realistic situations; secondly, research in citizen dimension is successful in phenomenal descriptions but have not done a perfect job in unfolding the backgrounded factors. In general, those have indicated a disjunction between the national dimension and the citizen dimension, and an imbalance between theoretical argumentation and realistic resolution.

Key words: national language capacity, citizen language capacity, status quo, reflection