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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:Allnormalhumaninfan
2、tscanlearntospeaksomelanguage.(4)Bycreativitywemeanthecreativeuseoflanguageasoftenpracticedbypoets.FNote:Bycreativitywemeanthatwecanalwayscreateandunderstandnewsentencesneverusedbefore.(5)Withdifferentculturestherewillbedifferentlanguages.FNote:Someculturescansharethesamelanguage
3、.(6)Notallusesoflanguagearemeanttoconveynewinformation.TNote:Example:languageusedforphaticcommunionisnotmeanttoconveynewinformation.■In-ClassActivities1.ASK:(1)Whatdoes“language”meanineachofthecontexts?a.anaturallanguage;languageinparticular.b.ahuman-specifictoolforcommunication;
4、languageingeneral.c.individualstyleoflanguageuse.d.ametaphoricalwayofreferringtobees’systemofcommunication.(2)Isthereanyothercontextinwhichtheuseofthewordmeanssomethingelse?Yes.Example:languageforthecomputerlikeC+2.ASK:(1)Whatiftherewerenolanguage?Omit.(2)Whatiftherewereonlyonela
5、nguagetheworldover?Omit.(3)WhatcanwelearnfromthisBiblestory?Languageispowerfulasatoolofhumancommunication.3.ASK:(1)Doyouthinkthetwostatementsareequallyprobable,andifnot,whynot?(a)ismorelikelythan(b),becausethewordasthebasicunitofmeaningthatcanoccurindependentlyinlanguageisfinitei
6、nnumber,whereasthesentenceascomposedofwords,thoughalmostinfiniteinnumber,ismadepossiblebyourknowledgeofvocabularyandgrammar.Wecanalwaysproduceandunderstandsentencesthatwenevercomeacrossbefore.Inthatsense,nosentenceisreallynew.(2)Inwhatcontextdowemakethesecondstatement?Whenwefocus
7、ourattentiononthemeaningofasentenceorwhenweareconcernedwiththeformofasentenceasfoundinalanguageclass.4.ASK:(1)ArethereonomatopoeicwordsinChinese?Yes.e.g.“哗啦”、“扑通”、“喀嚓”.(2)Doestheexistenceofonomatopoeicwordsoverthrowtheclaimthatlanguageisarbitrary?No.Onomatopoeicwordsaccountforave
8、rylimitedpercentageinthevocabularyofalan
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