文学是语言生活的重要领域。文学作品既反映语言生活，又参与语言生活建构，应将文学作品纳入语言生活的范畴来进行研究。文学作品所反映的语言生活可分为3个层次：文本语言生活、主体语言生活和客观语言生活。根据作家创作时间与文学作品所反映的时代的关系，可将文学作品分为记录型、追述型和构拟型，其文本语言生活的研究价值呈依次递减趋势。文学作品所呈现的语言生活具有具象化、整体性、连续性等基本特征，可为语言生活研究提供以“人”为中心的质性素材。文学作品的语言生活研究可将言语行为作为基本单位，建构“微观—中观—宏观”3个层级、“文本—作家—社会”3个维度、“内部—外部”两个视角的还原体系。开展文学作品的语言生活研究，既是回应文学界的呼声，也是回归语言学界关注文学的传统，重塑文学在语言生活中的地位，有助于拓宽文学界语言研究的视野，拓展语言生活的研究资源，构建语言生活史和高质量语言生活。应充分重视并挖掘文学作品的语言生活研究价值。

Literature is a crucial domain of language life. Literary works not only reflect language life, but also actively shape it. Therefore, literary works should be included as an important subject in language life research. The language life represented in literary works can be analyzed on three levels: textual language life, the language life of the subject, and objective language life. Based on the relationship between the time of creation and the era depicted, literary works can be categorized as recording, retrospective, or reconstructive types, with the research value of the textual language life gradually decreasing across these types. The language life presented in literary works is characterized by concreteness, integrity, and continuity, offering human-centered qualitative data for language study. Research on language life in literary works can use speech acts as basic units, constructing a reduction system across three levels (“micro—meso—macro”), three dimensions (“text—writer—society”), and two perspectives  (“internal—external”). Research in this area not only responds to calls in the literary community, but also aligns with the linguistic tradition of focusing on literature, thus redefining the role of literature in language life. Such research broadens the perspective of language research in the literary community, enriches the resources of language life research, and contributes to the construction of both a history and a high-quality practice of language life. The value of studying language life in literary works deserves further recognition and in-depth exploration.