面对区域国别研究被列为国家战略急需专业，外语学科一定要看到自己的难点，千万不能一哄而上。区域国别研究是政策性研究，主要服务于国家对外政治和经济的外交战略，涉及政治学、经济学、历史学、社会学、法律学、人类学和宗教学等专业知识，这些都不是我们外语学科尤其是外语专业本科生能轻易胜任的。外语界开展区域国别研究应该和国际关系学科进行合作，扬长避短，如可以从文化、文学和语言学等强项角度入手。一定的文化往往反映一定的政府体制和经济模式，而文学小说往往最能反映对象国的价值文化、政治制度和经济模式等。我们还可以运用功能语言学尤其是批评话语理论来分析对象国的政府工作报告，政治演讲和新闻报道，分析文本中语言运用背后的态度和立场。方法上可以采用语言学的语料库等。

At present, the Country-and-Area Studies (CAS), listed as a major urgently needed by the national strategy, have received the extensive attention in higher education. It is suggested, however, that the discipline of Foreign Linguistics and Literature (FLL) should avoid rushing into action regardless of its own weaknesses and limitations. The CAS aim to serve the country’s foreign political and economic diplomatic strategies, which require the disciplinary knowledge of politics, economics, history, sociology, jurisprudence and anthropology. Obviously, FLL could not be easily qualified for it. What we can do is to cooperate with scholars of the discipline of International Relations and conduct the studies in the aspects of culture, literature and linguistics which are our strength. Culture, reflected in novels, could inform us of a country’s government system, economic models and ideological beliefs. Apart from literature, we could also find the attitudes of the target government through the texts of government reports, political speeches and news reports by using corpus-based critical discourse analysis.