中文当前正面临着严重的危机,危机的产生有着各方面的原因,其中20世纪以来中国的语言学理论研究难辞其咎.从中文危机出发,作者特别拷问了"文字是符号的符号"、"重口语轻书面语"、"世界文字的发展规律"等对中国语言和中国社会影响甚巨的三条理论,指出它们的共同特点是"似是而非",其"似是"表现为在国外时都得到过一定程度的验证;其"而非"表现在用于中国无一成功,而且后患重重.由此提出了"语言学家的社会责任"、"如何对待国外理论"和"研究者的学术良心"三点思考.%Written Chinese today is facing serious crisis. To certain extent, linguistic study since the beginning of last century must be responsible for it, especially the three imported theories of "scripts being the signs of signs", "spoken language being the sole target of linguistic study", and "there being a universal evolutionary path for scripts from pictograph via ideograph to phonograph, the last being the most advanced". The commonness of the three "theories" lies in their seemingly correctness when proposed in the West while undoubtedly failure and harmfulness when adopted in China. It thus raised a serious problem for the Chinese linguists in introducing and applying Western theories to China.
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