论胡适的语言观

On Hu Shi＇s View of Language

胡适是一位＂语言革命家＂,在白话文取代文言文的历史进程中发挥了重要作用。胡适看到了白话文在文学上的强大生命力,并进一步鉴别了文言文与白话文的优劣,以此来验证他＂古文是死的文字,白话是活的方言＂的主张;他还积极践行、把推广白话文作为教育统一、文学统一、政治统一、文化统一的工具。他的《国语文法概论》是现代汉语语法学＂草创时期＂的奠基之作。胡适对国语与方言的关系也有独到的见解,看到了国语与方言之间的辩证关系,既要提倡一种通行的国语,便于交流,又不能忽视方言。这些从根本上确立了胡适在汉语言规范史上的重要地位。

Hu Shi is a revolutionist of language.He played an important role in the historical process of the vernacular to replace of classical Chinese.Hu saw the literary vitality of vernacular and further identified the merits and demerits of classical Chinese and vernacular so as to verify his claim ＂classical Chinese is dead text,the vernacular dialect is alive.＂ He also actively practiced and promoted the vernacular unified as an educational,literary unity,political unity and cultural unity of the tool.His Introduction to Mandarin grammar is a basic works of modern Chinese grammar in the pioneering stage.Hu have unique insights on the relationship between Mandarin and dialects.He saw the dialectical relationship between Mandarin and dialect.He advocates promoting a national language for the convenience of communication,but we also can not ignore dialect.All these essentially established Hushi＇s important position in the history of Chinese language.