Abstract:

Structuralist Linguistics established by Saussure was once extremely popular, which influenced many other disciplines, but several decades later, its glorious times have passed. From the view point of philosophy linguistics relies on, after its three turns, Western philosophy has been directed to the fourth turn: postmodernism, under whose influence, literature and translatology have soon advanced to this academic frontier, but linguistics still has been controlled by idealism and objectivist philosophy advocated by Saussure and Chomsky, thus making it backward far behind the former two disciplines in theoretical perspective. Owing to the uprising and development of Cognitive Linguistics and Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics, this situation has changed to a certain degree. With their popularity and penetration,linguistics may be expected to become a pilot science again.

Key words: structuralism, pilot science, objectivist philosophy, Cognitive Linguistics, Embodied-Cognitive Linguistics