Abstract: Digital linguistics is a new subject which studies the application and development of language in digital environment. Different from computational linguistics，digital linguistics has a broader research horizon.Its core goal，not only limited to the use of computational means to solve specific language processing tasks，focuses on the comprehensive collection，systematic management，fine analysis，and visual presentation of language data；it pays attention to the industrialization of research results，and is closely related to digital people. China has made initial progress in the field of digital linguistics research，yet，it can further develop infrastructure construction，the construction of disciplinary and educational systems，and the industrialization of research results. In the future，digital linguistics will show its unique value in more application scenarios including language education，public service，and business.

Key words: digital linguistics, computational linguistics, corpus, digital humanity, linguistic data