柯日布斯基常常用地图做比喻。地图对于旅行的人虽然大有用场,但是,他说地图并不就是那一块地方。与此相似,语言并不就是我们周遭的世界,可是对于我们遨游世界却是不可缺少的向导。然而,地图所显示给旅客的结构若是和他所要旅行地区的结构不同,这幅地图便一文不值。这里所谓结构是指次序和关系,什么在前,什么在后。假如地图上 Ke Babushki often use the map to do analogy. Although the map for the travel of great usefulness, but he said that the map is not the same place. Similarly, language is not the world around us, but an indispensable guide to our journey through the world. However, if the structure shown on the map to passengers differs from that of the area in which he travels, the map will be worthless. The so-called structure refers to the order and relationship, what is before, what is behind. If the map