“荀子是先秦诸子的最后一位大师,他不仅集了儒家的大成,而且可以说是集了百家的大成的。……他是把百家的学说差不多都融汇贯通了。”郭沫若对荀子的这个评价应该说是中肯的,实事求是的。对于语言理论,也可以说,荀子是扬各家之所长,击各家之所弊,融汇生发,初步形成了自己的理论,自己的思想。他是先秦语言理论集大成者,为我国语言理论的发展作出了重要的贡献。荀子的语言理论散布在荀子的有关文章 “Xunzi is the last master of the pre-Qin philosophers, he not only gathered Confucius Dacheng, and can be said to be a culmination of 100. ... He is almost all the doctrine of the hundred are integrated.” Guo Moruo This evaluation of Xunzi should be fair and realistic. For linguistic theory, it can also be said that Xunzi is the director of every family and strives to hit the disadvantages of all quarters and merges into new hair. His theory and his own thoughts have been initially formed. He is a master of linguistic theory before Qin Dynasty, which has made important contribution to the development of linguistic theory in our country. Xunzi’s theory of language is scattered in Xunzi’s related articles