从传播学的角度看,白话文运动实际上是传播符号的更新与转换。文言文之所以被白话文所取代,最根本的原因是文言文不能适应现代社会信息传播的需要,现代传媒要用现代化的语言符号作为承载和传递信息的工具。白话文“适用于今”、“通行于俗”,能够更准确地表达现代社会的新思想、新事物,使信息的内容更加明晰,更易于为大众接收和理解。随着受众群体的不断扩展,现代传媒的社会功能得到放大,在社会变革中发挥了越来越重要的作用。 From the perspective of communication studies, the vernacular movement is actually an update and conversion of symbols of communication. The reason why classical Chinese is replaced by vernacular is that the most fundamental reason is that classical Chinese can not meet the needs of modern society. The modern media should use modern linguistic symbols as a tool to carry and convey information. The vernacular “applies to the present” and “common to the vulgar” can express new ideas and new things in modern society more accurately and make the content of information more clear and easier to be received and understood by the general public. With the continuous expansion of audiences, the social functions of modern media have been magnified and played an increasingly important role in social changes.