语文是一门基础学科。但是,对于它的性质,一直以来,众说纷纭。语文的性质究竟是工具性还是人文性,又或者是二者兼而有之,是需要讨论的。本文认为,语文具有工具性和人丈性两种属性。其中,工具性是语文的本质属性,而人文性是它的显著特征,其地位应该是要低于工具性的。当然,也不能因此就忽略了人文性的重要作用。 Chinese is a basic subject. However, its nature has always been divergent. Whether the nature of language is instrumental or humanistic, or both, needs to be discussed. This paper argues that the language has two properties of instrumentalism and humanity. Among them, instrumentalism is the essential attribute of language, and humanity is its salient features, whose status should be lower than instrumentalism. Of course, we can not therefore ignore the important role of humanity.