Abstract—“Belt and Road”, or “One Belt, One Road”
(OBOR) was initiated by P.R. China in 2013 and has since been
embraced extensively worldwide. It involves more than 70
countries with total population over 4.5 billion and over 50
official languages of 9 major language families, as well as
numerous dialects. How to build a solid language and cultural
infrastructure to facilitate such complex across-country
cooperation on the platform? This paper proposes the model of
Language and Culture Pyramid, constructed in three layers of
intelligence: Language Intelligence, Culture Intelligence, and
Philosophy Intelligence. Strategies to develop language and
culture capacity and groom respective talents are discussed at
the end.
Index Terms—Belt and Road (One Belt, One Road), language
culture pyramid, Language Intelligence (LQ), Philosophical
Intelligence (PQ), Culture Intelligence (CQ).
The authors are with Asian Language and Culture, NIE, Nanyang
Technological University, Singapore (e-mail: wenxionguri@gmail.com).
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Cite: Aidong Zhang and Yongqing Fang, "Language-Culture Pyramid in the Era of Belt and Road," International Journal of Languages, Literature and Linguistics vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 269-273, 2019.