论元工具语言——基于历史唯物主义的视野

On Language of Elementary Instrument——In View of Historical Materialism

社会模式生成并造就语言。语言不仅人类是最早的工具,而且是人类所独有的工具,更是人类最基础的工具——制造工具的工具——一种元工具。"元工具语言"的生成,标志着人类社会的初级形态的形成。前语言阶段、声音语言阶段、记录语言阶段和机器语言阶段是语言发展的四个阶段。前两个阶段是语言的低级形态,后两个阶段是语言的高级形态。语言的内在结构来自于长期的语言规范而形成稳定的社会心理,反映人的内心思维方式,进而影响人的认识和思维逻辑。语言的一步步发展,引领着信息时代的到来。信息时代的语言交流在时空上所产生的张力:最大程度地满足了语言的开放特性,从而在最广的空间范围,在最持久的时间长河里持续激发创新,成为人类进步的持久的革命性的推动力量。

The social model create and bring up language. Language was not only the earliest tool for human, hut also the unique for human, and it wasthe most basic tool of a technical form a tool for manufacturing tool a kind of elementary instrument. The generation of the language of elementaryinstrument signed the formation of the primary speciation of human society. There were four stages in the development of language： the pre -languagestage, the sonic - language stage, the recorded - language stage and the machine language stage. The former two are the low level, the later two are thehigh level. The inner structure of language came from the stable social mentality originated from the long - time language specification, reflecting human＇ sway of thinking, then affecting people＇ s knowledge and thinking logic. The development of language eventually bringed the information era. The straingenerated by language communication in time and space, fully satisfying the openess of language, and consistently inciting creations in an expansive spaceand an everlasting time, becoming the revolutionary driving force to human progress.