一引言语言是人类社会生活中最奇妙的现象之一。自从出现了人类,就有了语言,从此,语言忠实记录了人类思想的发展进程,同时人类思想的发展又为语言学自身的发展提供了发展的基础。众所周知,西方语言学从诞生以来就与哲学有着不解之缘,哲学思想从古到今一直影响着语言学的发展。西方语言学萌芽于古希腊哲学,早在公元前大约5世纪,希腊著名哲学家苏格拉底、柏拉图、亚里士多德等就开始了对语言的研究。在此时期哲学家一直将语言问题置于哲学范围之内讨论,语言问题的研究是和认识学说的研究密切联系在一起的。直 An Introduction Language is one of the most marvelous phenomena in human social life. Since the emergence of mankind, there has been a language. Since then, language has faithfully recorded the development of human thought. At the same time, the development of human thought has provided the basis for the development of linguistics itself. As we all know, since the birth of Western Linguistics, philosophy has a long history and philosophy has been influencing the development of linguistics since ancient times. Western linguistics sprouted in ancient Greek philosophy. As early as around the 5th century BC, the famous Greek philosophers Socrates, Plato and Aristotle began their studies on languages. During this period, philosophers always placed language problems within the scope of philosophy. The study of language problems is closely linked with the study of epistemology. straight