当代三大科技与21世纪语言学

Three Major Contemporary Science Advances and Linguistics in 21st Century

20世纪下半叶,世界科技进入新的飞跃时期,先后出现计算机科技、分子生物学、现代脑科学。现代科技促进了当代语言学的发展,计算机科技孕育了计算语言学,现代脑科学提升了神经语言学,现代生物学推进了生物语言学和演化语言学,分子人类学与亲缘比较语言学相互验证,由此呈现当代语言学和当代科技的互动。当代语言学的交叉性、实验性和精密化趋势,促使其成为“语言科技”——此为21世纪语言学的发展方向。

In the second half of the 20th century,science and technology entered a period of rapid development throughout the world.The successive emergence of computer science,molecular biology,and modern brain science has promoted contemporary linguistics:computer science fostered computational linguistics,modern brain science improved neurolinguistics,and modern biology boosted biolinguistics as well as evolutionary linguistics.In addition,molecular anthropology and kinship comparative linguistics have been verifying each other.All these indicated the interaction between contemporary linguistics and science.Being interdisciplinary,experimental,and sophisticated,contemporary linguistics have made itself a“language science and technology”,the orientation of linguistics research in the 21st century.