对于语言单位的探讨由来已久,什么是语言单位,怎样划分语言单位,是所有的语言学家都必然要涉及的问题,瑞士著名语言学家索绪尔也不例外。在《普通语言学教程》这本名著中,虽然索绪尔没有明确地划分语言单位,但是他却对语言单位非常重视。不仅花费了大量的篇幅论述了他关于语言单位的看法,并且在说明其他语言思想的时候也提及到,这些思想反映了他的语言单位观,也反映了他的结构语言观的本质。本文将从划分语言单位的必要性、划分语言单位的原则、索绪尔对于语言单位是“词”的观点的看法三方面来还原索绪尔关于语言单位的具体思想。 For a long time to explore the language unit, what is the language unit, how to divide the language unit, all linguists are bound to be involved in the problem, the famous Swiss linguist Saussure is no exception. In his famous book “The Course of General Linguistics,” although Saussure does not explicitly distinguish between language units, he attaches great importance to language units. Not only has he spent a lot of time discussing his views on linguistic units, but also in explaining other linguistic ideas, these thoughts reflect his view of linguistic unit as well as the essence of his structural linguistic view. This article will review Saussure ’s concrete ideas about linguistic units in terms of the necessity of dividing linguistic units, the principle of dividing linguistic units, and Saussure’ s view that linguistic units are ".