科技革命对语言的影响

The Impact of Scientific and Technological Revolution on Human Languages

18世纪中叶以来,人类经历了三次科技革命,科技革命使社会生产力发生了革命性的变革,极大地推动了人类社会的发展。科技不但改变人类的生活,而且也改变人类的语言。语言与人类历史上的三次科技革命息息相关,科技革命对语言的词汇、语言的语义、语言的组合形式、语言之间的接触和融合都产生着深刻的影响,随着科技革命的不断深化,特别是在这个知识经济时代,科学技术获得更快的发展,科技对人类语言的影响更加深远,语言和科技的联系愈加紧密。

Since the mid-18th century, the mankind has experienced three scientific and technological revolutions. The scientific and technological revolution promotes the changes of the social productive forces and human history, the scientific and technological revolution has produced a profound impact on the vocabulary, the language combinations, the semantics, the integration and contact among the languages. With the deepening of scientific and technological revolution at this new era of knowledge economy, the science and technology are developing more and more faster, its impact on human language is far-reaching, and the human language becomes more closely linked with the science and technology.