The dialogical principle is central not just to Humboldt’s theory of language but also to his philosophical anthropology, and it has a direct political relevance. Dialogue is intrinsic to the realization of human subjectivity in a diverse community of free individuals. Language involves two constitutive principles: the inner linguistic sense (‘innerer Sprachsinn’) and objective sound (‘der Laut’): individual self-expression has meaning only when it is reflected back in the voice of another. The diversity (‘Verschiedenheit’) of languages and their comparative study is not just essential to our understanding of our own languages as well as those of others; it is intrinsic to the nature of language as such. Translation is thus a privileged route to cultural as well as linguistic communication. Keywords: Dialogue; language; subjectivity; community; diversity; Verschiedenheit; inner linguistic sense; objective sound; translation; culture; communication

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威廉·冯·洪堡与对话式思维

对话原则不仅是洪堡的语言理论的核心，也是他的哲学人类学的核心，并且具有直接的政治意义。在自由个体的多元化社区中，对话是实现人类主体性的内在因素。语言涉及两个构成原则：内在语言意义（'innerer Sprachsinn'）和客观声音（'der Laut'）：个人的自我表达只有在反映在另一个人的声音中时才有意义。语言的多样性（“Verschiedenheit”）及其比较研究不仅对我们理解我们自己的语言以及其他语言至关重要；它是语言的本质所固有的。因此，翻译是文化和语言交流的一条特权途径。关键词：对话；语; 主观性；社区; 多样性; 异质性；内在的语言感；客观的声音；翻译; 文化; 沟通