20世纪初的中国与西方几乎是在同时开始了一次比较集中的关注语言的文化现象,瑞士的费迪南德·索绪尔于1916年出版《语言学教程》挑战原有的“语言摹仿论”而以为语言作为符号系统有其自身的内部结构,并通过自身结构产生意义。本雅明则在1916年的语言学文章《论语言本身与人类语 At the same time, China and the west of the early twentieth century started a relatively concentrated cultural phenomenon of concern for the language. Ferdinand Saussure of Switzerland published the Linguistics Course in 1916 challenging the original “language imitation theory” However, thinking that language has its own internal structure as a symbolic system and has its own meaning through its own structure. Benjamin in 1916 linguistics article "on the language itself and human language