1960年6月20日斯大林同志在真理报上发表了“论马克思主义在语言学中的问题”。这篇富有马克思、列宁主义创造性的论文,从理论上给中国语言学解决了好些问题,并且启示了中国语言学的新任务和新方向。我在这里先提出几点来讨论:第一、“大众语”跟“白话文”的论争语言是没有阶级性的;纪录语言的文字,它本身也没有阶级性。中国古代人民口里说出来的话跟写出来的文,本来相差不远。可是,封建统治阶 On June 20, 1960, Comrade Stalin published in Pravda “On Marxism in Linguistics.” This essay rich in Marxism and Leninism has theoretically solved many problems for Chinese linguistics and has inspired the new tasks and directions of Chinese linguistics. First of all, I would like to raise a few points here to discuss: First, the language of discourse between the “popular language” and “vernacular” is not classic; the language of the record language itself is not class. The words spoken out by the ancient Chinese people were not far from the ones they wrote. However, the feudal ruling class