汪曾祺是我国当代文学史上杰出的剧作家、小说家与散文家,作为20世纪40年代走过来的老作家,他有着强烈的语言自觉性,不断从古代文论、民间文学、西方文学和五四新文学中汲取营养,形成了独特鲜明的小说语言风格。自20世纪80年代起,“语言论转向”成为新的学术思潮,带来了文学语言观的转变,小说语言开始从工具论向本体论转变,“寻找语言”成为作家的兴奋点。在这种学术背景下,汪曾祺提出语言具有文化性、内容性、流动性等特点,语言是文 Wang Zengqi is an outstanding playwright, novelist and essayist in the history of contemporary Chinese literature. As an old writer who came in the 1940s, Wang Zengqi has a strong sense of language. He constantly analyzes ancient Chinese literary theory, folk literature, western literature and the May Fourth Movement New literature to absorb nutrition, forming a unique and distinctive novel language style. Since the 1980s, “the shift of linguistic theory” has become a new academic trend, bringing about a change in the literary language concept. The novel language has begun to change from the tool theory to the ontology, and “the search for language” has become the writer’s excitement point. In this academic background, Wang Zengqi put forward the characteristics of language culture, content, mobility, language is the text