语言是文学的媒介,正象大理石、青铜、黏土是雕塑家的材料。每一种语言都有它鲜明的特点,所以一种文学的内在的形式限制—和可能性——从来不会和另一种文学完全一样。用一种语言的形式和质料形成的文学,总带着它的模子的色彩和线条。萨丕尔《语言论》 Language is the medium of literature, just as marble, bronze, clay is the sculptor’s material. Every language has its distinctive features, so the inherent formal limitations of one kind of literature - and the possibilities - are never exactly the same as the other. Literature formed in a linguistic form and texture always carries the color and lines of its mold. Sapir “Language Theory”