语言学史学(linguistic historiography,或historiography of linguistics)作为语言学的一门专门的分科形成于本世纪七十年代,经过二十余年拓展,目前在西方已颇具规模。本文讨论的是从事该领域研究的学者经常使用的一些概念。这些概念有些对于我们是新的,引入它们有利于历史哲学的思维。有些则已司空见惯。但正因为见惯了,用熟了,一般人就不大注意去界定它们,辨析它们可能会有的含混意义。界定、辨析这些概念,应是研究具体语言学史的基础理论工作之一。 Linguistic history (linguistic historiography, or historiography of linguistics) as a specialized branch of linguistics was formed in the seventies of this century, after more than 20 years of expansion, is now a considerable scale in the west. This article discusses some of the concepts commonly used by academics working in this area. Some of these concepts are new to us and the introduction of them is in the philosophy of historical philosophy. Some are commonplace. However, just because we are accustomed to using it, most people do not pay much attention to defining them and identify the ambiguities they may have. Defining and analyzing these concepts should be one of the basic theoretical work on the history of specific linguistics.