语言的困境:《玻璃山》与巴别塔

The Dilemma of Language:The Glass Mountainand the Towel of Babel

对存在的追问一直困扰着人类。20世纪以后,人们重新审视语言、人和存在的关系,终于发现语言既不是表达,也不是人的一种活动。语言就是语言本身,不是其它任何东西,人们可以在语言中保护存在并在存在中与语言共处。人们找到了自身存在的家园,即语言。但是,语言也是符号,由能指和所指构成。后现代以后,符号的能指和所指不再是稳定的统一体,却变成了无休止的延异活动,语言无法再保护人类的存在。语言的表征陷入了困境,人类的存在也陷入了困境。

Asking existence has puzzled the relationship among language, human human beings. After the twentieth c being and existence, and finally find entury, people re-examine language is neither expres- sion nor an activity of people. Language is just language itself while it is not anything else, in which peo- ple can protect exi However, language bolic signifier guage can not s existence. stence and coexist with language. People find their own home, which is language is a symbol which consists of signifier and signified. In post-modernism period, sym- and signified is no longer a stable entity, but into an endless difference activity, so that lan- protect people＇s existence. Expression of language is into a dilemma, so is human being＇