Unit 7 The Meaning of English (II) 教学提示

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1、Unit7TheMeaningofEnglish(II)[Checkyourunderstanding]StatewhethereachofthefollowingstatementsisTrueorFalse.1.Differentlanguagesrepresenttheworldincompletelydifferentways.F2.Metaphoricreasoningexplainsmuchoftheextensionofwordmeanings.T3.Everysentencehasitstruthcondition

2、s.FNote:Interrogativesentencesandimperativesentencesmaynothavetruthconditions.4.“Theme”asasemanticrolereferstothetopicthesentenceisabout.FNote:“Theme”asasemanticrolereferstotheoneorthingthatundergoesanaction.■In-ClassActivities1.ASK:(1)Whatdoyouthinkgivesrisetothesema

3、nticfuzzinessoflanguage?Theremaybenoclearboundarybetweenobjectsintherealorimaginaryworldthatlanguagerepresents.Anotherreasonisthatlanguageisaneconomical,roughrepresentationoftheworld.Lastbutnotleast,languageusersfailtounderstandtheworldproperly.(2)Canyoucitemoreexampl

4、esoffuzzyexpressions?tall,big,quickly,greatly,much,many,etc.(3)Whatadvantagesanddisadvantagesmaythefuzzypropertyoflanguagehaveasatoolofcommunication?Advantages:1)Itmakestheuseoflanguageeasyandflexible.2)Itmakesexaggerationandthelikepossible.3)Sometimes,fuzzinessisprec

5、ision.Disadvantages:Mostofthetime,precisionisimpossible.Vaguecommunicationoftenresults.2.ASK:(1)Whatelsedowecompare“time”to?Whatrelatedexpressionsdowehave?Wemaycompare“time”tosomethingthatmoves.E.g.Astimeadvances,weknowworldbetterandbetter.Histimehascome.Wemayalsocomp

6、are“time”toakindofmedicine.E.g.Timehealsmosttroubles.(2)DoweusethesamekindofmetaphorsinEnglishandinChinese?Givesomeexamplesthatshowtheirconvergenceanddivergence.Yes.节省/浪费时间，耗时,etc.(3)Whatmetaphorsdoyouknowthatrelatetothefollowingthemes?language:桥梁、工具、资源life:舞台、行程、教科书f

7、riendship:纽带、贵重物品books:人类进步的阶梯、精神食粮motherland:母亲、归属3.ASK:(1)Inwhatwaysiscommunicatingideassimilartofoodintakeanddigestion?Inthecourseofcommunication,thehearertakesinformationfromthespeakerandprocessesit.Allthisissimilartofoodintakeanddigestion.(2)Canyougivetwomoreexpr

8、essionsinvolvingsimilarmetaphors?Mylecturewaspurenonsense,buttheyreallyateitup.Whatshesaysisfoodforthought,butitgivesusonlya