论晚清革命报刊的白话文理论

On Vernacular Theory of Revolutionary Newspapers and Periodicals in the Late Qing Dynasty

晚清白话文运动得益于维新报刊和革命报刊对白话文的理论倡导,尽管二者倡导的目的不同,一为启蒙维新,一为启蒙革命,但二者对白话文在晚清社会中的应用与推广起着相同的作用。革命报刊基于对民众革命启蒙的政治诉求,从语言文字的工具性功能的角度,剖析文言之弊,褒扬白话文之益,主张"言文合一",为白话报刊的创办、白话文的普及提供理论支持。

In the late Qing Dynasty, vernacular movement benefited from the theoretical advocacy of vernacular language from reformist and revolutionary newspapers and periodicals. Although they advocated for different purposes, i.e. one for reform, the other for revolution, both of them played the same role in the application and spreading of vernacular languagein the late Qing Dynasty. Based on people’s political demands, the revolutionary newspapers and periodicals analyzed the disadvantages of classical Chinese, praised the advantages of vernacular language from the perspective of the instrumental function oflanguage, and proposed “combination of classical Chinese and vernacular language” so as to provide theoretical support for foundation of vernacular newspapers and periodicals and popularization of vernacular language.