索绪尔开创的现代语言学影响了20世纪人文科学的发展,正如美国学者乔纳森.卡勒所言:“他把本来是深奥难懂、专业性很强的语言学变成了一个主要的知识领域,变成了其他人文学科的典范”。(卡勒,第68页)作为后现代主义哲学大师的德里达正是从索绪尔的语言学中找到了哲学创新的灵感 The modern linguistics Saussure created has influenced the development of the humanities in the 20th century. As the American scholar Jonathan Kalle put it: “He turned linguistics which was originally esoteric and highly specialized into a major one Field, has become a model for other humanities. ” (Calle, p. 68) Derrida, the master of postmodernism, found the inspiration for philosophical innovation in Saussure’s linguistics