Abstract:

It is previously believed that the term “comparative grammatology” was raised by Lin Zhuyu in 1937. Actually Hu Shi had already put it forward when he drafted Outline of Curriculum Criterion of New Educational System: The Outline of Compulsory Chinese Course for the First Group of Senior High School in 1923. Then He Changqun picked up the term in 1928 when he translated The History of the Alphabet. After that, Lin Zhuyu in his book A Brief Introduction to Comparative Grammatology referred to the term by He Changqun. Although Lin Zhuyu is not the earliest scholar to put forward the term, he is the first one to elaborate term’s connotation.

Key words: comparative grammatology, grammatology, Hu Shi