资源描述：
《《泛读教程》iii unit 6 vocabulary change》由会员上传分享，免费在线阅读，更多相关内容在学术论文-天天文库。
1、Unit6TextIVocabularyChangePre-readingquestions1.Givethemeaningoftheunderlinedwordsdoubletandveal?2.Givethemainideaofparagraph2,4,6,9and10(9+10=thelasttwo)3.Whatarethecausesforborrowingwordsaccordingtothetext?4.Howdopeopleadapttonewborrowedwords?5.Whatchang
2、esaremadeofthemeaningofborrowedwordsaccordingtothetext?BorrowingBorrowingisawayofaddingnewvocabularyitemstoalanguage.Speakersofalanguageoftenhavecontactwithspeakersofotherlanguage.Ifaspeakerofoneoftheselanguagesdoesnothaveareadilyavailablewordforsomethingi
3、ntheworldandaspeakeroftheotherlanguagedoes,thefirstspeakeroftenborrowsthewordfromthesecondspeaker.ThefirstsettlersinNorthAmericahadcontactwiththeIndianswhohadalreadydevelopednamesforplacesandthingspeculiartotheNorthAmericancontinent.Consequently,thesettler
4、sborrowedsuchwordsasMassachusetts,Wisconsin,Michigan,Illinois,Chicago,andMississippi,tomentionafewplace-namesonly.AnotherlargegroupofwordscameintoEnglishasaresultofcontactthroughinvasion,inthiscasetheNormanConquestofEnglandin1066.Variouskindsofwordswerebor
5、rowedintoEnglish:formattersofgovernmentlikecrown,country,duke,court,andprince;formattersoflawlikejudge,jury,crime,accuse,marry,andprove;formattersofwarlikebattle,arms,soldier,siege,danger,andmarch;andformattersofreligionlikeangel,saint,pray,save,blame,virt
6、ue,andvice.Then,too,todaywefindinterestingpairsofwordssuchascowandbeef,sheepandmutton,calfandveal,andpigandporkinwhichthefirstitem,thenameoftheanimal,isGermanicinoriginandtheseconditem,themeatoftheanimal,isaborrowingfromFrench.Perhapstheoccurrenceofsuchpai
7、rsreflectsasocietyinwhichtheconqueredEnglishmanraisedtheanimalsforthetableoftheconqueringNorman.SeveralpointscanbemadeabouttheNormanConquest.First,theborrowingsfromFrenchdonotshowmuch,ifany,culturalsuperiorityintheinvaders.Secondly,althoughtheNormanswereco
8、nquerors,theyeventuallygaveuptheirFrenchtobecomespeakersofEnglish,justastheirancestorshadeventuallygivenuptheirGermaniclanguagewhentheyinvadedFrance.Thirdly,theborrowingsdonotshowthesameintimaterelationshipsb
