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1、《英语语言学实用教程》教学提示Unit1SomePreliminariesaboutLanguage[Checkyourunderstanding]StatewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse.(1)Thereisuniversalagreementabouttheoriginoflanguage.F(2)Petdogscanspeakhumanlanguages.F(3)Allhumaninfantscanspeaksomelanguage.FNote:

2、Allnormalhumaninfantscanlearntospeaksomelanguage.(4)Bycreativitywemeanthecreativeuseoflanguageasoftenpracticedbypoets.FNote:Bycreativitywemeanthatwecanalwayscreateandunderstandnewsentencesneverusedbefore.(5)Withdifferentculturestherewillbedifferentlanguages.FNo

3、te:Someculturescansharethesamelanguage.(6)Notallusesoflanguagearemeanttoconveynewinformation.TNote:Example:languageusedforphaticcommunionisnotmeanttoconveynewinformation.■In-ClassActivities1.ASK:(1)Whatdoes“language”meanineachofthecontexts?a.anaturallanguage;la

4、nguageinparticular.b.ahuman-specifictoolforcommunication;languageingeneral.c.individualstyleoflanguageuse.d.ametaphoricalwayofreferringtobees’systemofcommunication.(2)Isthereanyothercontextinwhichtheuseofthewordmeanssomethingelse?Yes.Example:languageforthecompu

5、terlikeC+2.ASK:(1)Whatiftherewerenolanguage?Omit.(2)Whatiftherewereonlyonelanguagetheworldover?Omit.(3)WhatcanwelearnfromthisBiblestory?Languageispowerfulasatoolofhumancommunication.3.ASK:(1)Doyouthinkthetwostatementsareequallyprobable,andifnot,whynot?(a)ismore

6、likelythan(b),becausethewordasthebasicunitofmeaningthatcanoccurindependentlyinlanguageisfiniteinnumber,whereasthesentenceascomposedofwords,thoughalmostinfiniteinnumber,ismadepossiblebyourknowledgeofvocabularyandgrammar.Wecanalwaysproduceandunderstandsentencesth

7、atwenevercomeacrossbefore.Inthatsense,nosentenceisreallynew.(2)Inwhatcontextdowemakethesecondstatement?Whenwefocusourattentiononthemeaningofasentenceorwhenweareconcernedwiththeformofasentenceasfoundinalanguageclass.4.ASK:(1)ArethereonomatopoeicwordsinChinese?Ye

8、s.e.g.“哗啦”、“扑通”、“喀嚓”.(2)Doestheexistenceofonomatopoeicwordsoverthrowtheclaimthatlanguageisarbitrary?No.Onomatopoeicwordsaccountforaverylimitedpercentageinthevocabularyofalan