符号学概念最早是由索绪尔提出的,他预见了这门学科的出现,但无论是索绪尔,还是皮尔斯,由于受到时代和领域的局限,他们都未对语言符号学作出专门的研究,虽然世界符号学界零星涉及此问题,但语言符号学的体系性成果始终未见。真正对语言符号学这个大厦起到基础构建作用的无疑是中国学者的系列研究。本文从历时与共时两个维度探讨语言符号学的学科脉络,采用由远及近的方法梳理了符号概念、符号学的由来、符号学的边界、语言学与符号学的联姻、语言符号学的研究对象、符号学的显要特征和基础构建、中国语言符号学的贡献及其符号学第四王国的兴起等问题。语言符号学作为一门新兴交叉学科,旨在研究语言符号以及运用符号学的方法研究语言学,其建立时间不长,尚需我们共同探究与维护。

The concept of semiotics was first proposed by F. de Saussure, which foreshadowed the emergence of this branch of learning. Neither Saussure nor Pierce has made a specialized study of linguistic semiotics due to the limitations of the times and fields. In the world semiotics, there are still no systematic achievements in linguistic semiotics although this issue is occasionally touched upon. It is undoubtedly the series of studies by Chinese scholars that have really played a fundamental role in the building of linguistic semiotics. This paper probes into the historical development of linguistic semiotics from diachronic and synchronic perspectives, and sorts out 10 related issues on the basis of historical review, involving the concept of signs, the origin of semiotics, the debate between nominalism and realism, the boundary of semiotics, the connections between linguistics and semiotics, the research object of linguistic semiotics, the prominent features of linguistic semiotics, the basic construction of linguistic semiotics, the contribution of Chinese linguistic semiotics and the rise of the fourth realm of semiotics. Linguistic semiotics is a rising interdisciplinary field, which aims to study linguistic signs and linguistics with semiotic methods. It has not been established for a long time and still requires our thorough exploration and preservation.