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1、DiscoveringtheSelfJamesE.Miller,Jr.AbouttheAuthorJamesE.MillerJr.Americaneducatorandauthor,aprofessorofEnglishattheUniversityofChicago.HeisauthorofnumerousscholarlyworksonFitzgerald,Whitman,andMelville.ThisexcerptisfromhisbookWord,Self,Reality(1972)DiscussionWhatistheu
2、seofwriting?Howdoyoufeelaboutwriting?ClarifyourgoalsLiberateourcreativityHelpustorethinkrelationshipsandseetheminawholenewlightDetecttheunconsciousmessagesweroutinelysendtoourselves,sothatwecannotpretendthatwedidn’teverthinkthatwayHelpustochangethewayweseeourlivesRevea
3、ltherichesthatmightotherwiseremaintrappedinthesilence.self-discoverylanguagewritingReadthroughthetext…ThistextcouldbedividedintoTWOparts:PartOne(Para.1-6)theroleoflanguageinthecreationoftheselfPartTwo(Para.7-13)Adetaileddiscussionabouthowtodiscovertheselfthroughwriting
4、Ispeak,thereforeIam.Iestablishmyindividualityandmydistinctionasahumanbeingthroughlanguage.Hebecomes-throughlanguage.Iproclaimmyexistence,mybeingandmyidentitythroughlanguage.TheCreationoftheselfmust,byitsverynature,beacooperativeaffair.Thepotentiality….(Para.3)Thecreati
5、onofadistinctiveindividualmustbedoneincooperationwithothers,notbytheindividualalone.Capacitytolearnanduselanguageseemstoberelatedtofactspresentatbirth.Bynature:naturally,inherentSheistaciturn(沉默寡言的)bynature.Potentiality:inherentcapacityforgrowth,development,orcomingint
6、oexistence.Myjobistohelpyoungpeopletodeveloptheirpotentiality.AsympatheticenvironmentSympathetic:favorablysuitedtoone’sdisposition(性格)ormood.Thechildgrowsuphealthilyinthesympatheticsurroundingsofthecountryside.Tofollowthisimpulsethrowstheindividualbackonhislanguagereso
7、urces.(para.6)Throwbackon:makedependon,fallbackon,relyonUnabletowinenoughtoeat,theescapedprisonerwasthrownbackontheoldtrade:robbery.Tofollowthisinnerurge,theindividualhastorelyonhislanguagesources.Intheprocessofsortingthrough…proclaiminghimself.(Para.6)Intheprocessofpu
8、ttinghisrandomthoughtsintoorder,heisactuallydescribinghimselfanddeclaringhisexistenceasadistinctiveindividual.在整理思绪的过
