卡西尔认为,语言不是单纯的认知工具,“语词首先必须以神话的方式被设想为一种实体性的存在和力量,而后才能被理解为一种理想的工具”。换言之,语言除了作为一种认知工具外,更重要的价值是其所拥有的本体论意义。基于这种美学思想,19世纪末发轫于西方哲学界的“语言学转向”风潮四起,一 Cassirer argues that language is not a mere cognitive tool. “Words must first be conceived in the mythological way as a physical existence and strength, before they can be understood as an ideal instrument.” In other words, besides being a cognitive tool, the more important value of language is the ontological meaning it possesses. Based on this kind of aesthetics, the trend of “linguistic turn” in western philosophical circles, which started in the late 19th century,