Chinese is more important. "Chinese" is a compound word, with morpheme (also called root) "language" representing linguistics and morpheme "Wen" representing literature. Literature is an art while linguistics is a social science. Language and thinking are inseparable. Without language, there is no naked thinking. Language is the material shell of thinking, which provides the material basis for the generation of thinking. The development of linguistics also promotes the development of thinking (from perceptual thinking to rational thinking). Mathematics is a subject to study natural password, and the process of obtaining passwords is naturally inseparable from logical reasoning, which is a kind of advanced abstract rational thinking, and the expression of mathematical theory is even more inseparable from language. Set theory is the foundation of basic mathematics, and many of its theories are inconvenient to be expressed in natural languages, such as ZFC axiomatic system theory. So linguistics has produced formal languages to express rigorous theories in mathematics and logic, and then formal grammar (morphology and syntax) and formal semantics have been produced to study formal languages. Therefore, the development of mathematics and logic in turn promotes the development of linguistics.

Another thing I want to say is that our country now attaches more importance to literature than linguistics, which integrates phonetics, semantics and grammar. Modern Chinese teaching is particularly indifferent to grammar. When it comes to the modification of ill sentences, it is not systematic, just like squeezing toothpaste. Another point is to dilute the technical terms of linguistics. How many students also know the following terms: morpheme, word, original meaning, extended meaning, figurative meaning, the difference between polysemous words and homonyms, simple sentences, complex sentences, predicate-object structures and predicate-complement structures, morphemes and non-morphemes, real morphemes and virtual morphemes, notional words and function words, body words and predicates, sentence groups, analytic hierarchy process and so on. If I wasn't particularly interested in linguistics, I'm afraid I wouldn't read relevant Chinese books. Finally, a linguistics lover came into being. When he asked the teacher a few syntactic questions that he couldn't figure out for a long time, the teacher faltered and said, "You can understand a sentence without taking an exam. Why bother with syntactic structure? You should read more articles by those literary masters. They didn't learn any grammar knowledge, but they were still able to write that art article. "

At present, Chinese teaching overemphasizes sensibility, literature is art, and art cannot be separated from sensibility; Therefore, there is a phenomenon of over-interpreting the author's thoughts and feelings and over-exaggerating the author's writing art. Didn't the author of the college entrance examination Chinese reading get half a mark in recent years? Chinese really needs perceptual knowledge first, but it also needs rationality. In language teaching, besides the necessary linguistic knowledge, students should also be trained in reasoning and argumentation, which is worth learning from many foreign mother tongue teaching methods.

Linguistics is very important, linguistics is very important, linguistics is very important, say the important things three times!