However, the modern sense of "literary theory" only dates to approximately the 1950s when the structuralist linguistics of Ferdinand de Saussure began to strongly influence English language literary criticism.
不過「文學理論」的現代意義是大約從1950年代才開始的，當時結構主義語言學家索緒爾（Ferdinand de Saussure）開始強烈影響英語世界的文學批評。