胡适等五四新文化先驱是语言工具论者,他们希望通过语言变革建构现代化民主国家。由于现代性是一个自我对抗、自我背叛的内在分裂过程,社会变革对语言的要求和文学变革对语言的要求有很大的不同,因此以追求社会现代性为目标的五四语言变革有其内在的分裂性。这种内在分裂造成了语言理论和语言实践不可调和的矛盾,同时对新文学各种文体的创作及作家心理都有不同程度的影响。 Hu Shi and other pioneers of the May 4 new culture are linguistic instrumentalists who want to construct a modern democratic state through language change. Since modernity is a process of internal divisions of self-confrontation and self-rebellion, social language requirements are greatly different from those of literary changes. Therefore, the language change of the May 4th Movement in pursuit of social modernity is inherent Divisibility. This internal split has caused irreconcilable contradictions between linguistic theories and language practice. At the same time, it influences the creation of various genres of new literature and the psychology of writers in varying degrees.