“曰”字在史传论赞中具有神圣意味，以“曰”领起的言论往往预示着是权威话语。殷墟卜辞中“王曰”、“王占曰”、“王卜曰”，金文、《尚书》中“王若曰”、“周公若曰”，《左传》“君子曰”，《论语》“子曰”形成一脉相承的言说传统。这一传统中，“曰”的各种言说形式都是具有足够话语权的权威话语。《史记》“太史公曰”以“曰”字作为论赞的提示语，实是对这一传统的自觉承继。受“君子曰”启发，《史记》以“太史公”作为论赞主体，是司马迁在史官传统极其微弱的大一统时代条件下，对曾经拥有相当话语权力的史官传统的回归，希冀从传统中汲取话语力量和批判的信心。%Utterance had sacred significance in the comments of history books. The comment leaded by utterance always had its authority. The Wang＇ s utterance, Wangzhan＇ s utterance and Wangruo＇ s utterance in oracles, Wangrue＇ s utterance and Zhougon- gruo＇ s utterance in inscriptions on ancient bronze objects and Book of History and sage＇ s utterance in Tso Chuan and Confucius＇ utterance in Analects of Confucius formed a continuous speech tradition. In this tradition, all kinds of utterance had enough authori- ty. Taishigong＇ s utterance in Historical Records inherited this tradition. Inspired by sage＇ s utterance, Historical Records regards Taishigong as the commentator. It returned the historian＇ s tradition and hoped to learn speech resource and critique confidence from the tradition.
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