摘要
作为文学存在形式的语言，是一个符号系统，以语言获取存在形式的文学，也是一个符号系统；语言结构反映人所认识的世界的结构，因此，体现人和世界的审美关系的文学，在文本组织形式上往往带有语言结构的烙印；语言的线性特征为文学的线性叙述提供了基础，同时也迫使作家进行挣脱线性叙事，走向审美自由的尝试；语言的句段关系和联想关系，对应了文学作品诗意功能的审美价值和审美效应，对此。
This paper discusses the structuralist linguistic theory and literary theory which are homogeneous in origin but hetegeneous in character in the following four aspects: 1.as the existent form of literature, language is a symbolic system and so is literature as it acquires its existent form from language; 2.language structure reflects the structure of man's understanding of the world and therefore literature, which embodies the aesthetic relation between man and the world, bears the brands of the language structure;3.the linear characteristic of language provides the foundation for the linear literary narration and at the same time pushes the writer away from the linear narration towards the attempt for aesthetic freedom; 4.the syntactic and associative relations of language correspons to the aesthetic value and effect of the poetic function of literary works. In this regard, Saussure's discovery is as constructive as Jakobson's elucidation.
