2012年9月21～23日,由中国社会语言学会和天津商业大学外国语学院联合主办的第八届中国社会语言学国际学术研讨会在天津商业大学召开。来自中国大陆、香港、台湾和美国、韩国等高校和教学科研部门的一百多位专家学者及研究生汇聚一堂,以“全球化生活背景下的中国语言生活”为主题,围绕语言与语言使用者、语言规划与语言政策、话语与中国社会 From September 21 to September 23, 2012, the 8th International Symposium on Sociolinguistics in China, co-sponsored by China Society for Social Linguistics and Tianjin University of Foreign Studies, was held at Tianjin University of Commerce. Over 100 experts, scholars and postgraduates from universities and research institutes in mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, the United States, South Korea and other universities gathered together to focus on the theme of “Chinese language life in the context of globalization”, focusing on language and language User, language planning and language policy, discourse and Chinese society