Being a fundamental philosophical thought, pragmatism has deeply influenced Chinese traditional linguistics. In the Early
Qin Period, the awareness of linguistics originated from the political debate and the moral doctrines. The formation of the exegetics in the Han Dynasty was the direct product of "respecting the Confucianism" and "Illustrations to the philosophical woks". The emergence of phonology aimed to explain the doctrines and to create the prose poems. The view of the rhetoric is the accessory of the poetry in the literary world. That the study of grammar is weak shows that Chinese traditional linguistics values pragmatics and lays less stress on the object. The study of the relation between the form and the meaning of the Chinese characters aims at explaining the meaning, which is exegetical and pragmatic as well. The pragmatism thought in the Chinese traditional linguistics is the destined result of the
Chinese traditional culture, apart from the
reasonability in "pragmatic" itself.