Unit12InterpretingAcademicSpeeches.pptVIP

Unit 12 Interpreting Academic Speeches 12-1-1 电视机和收音机在言语的海洋里起着推波助澜的作用。除了睡觉之外，我们很少有不说话的时候。我们甚至在睡梦中也会说话。我们还会自言自语，有时对宠物说话，有时则对自己说话。 12-1-2 Television and radio further swell this torrent of words. Hardly a moment of our waking lives is free from words, and even in our dreams we talk. Some of us talk aloud in our sleep. We also talk when there is no one to answer. Sometimes we talk to our pets and sometimes to ourselves. 12-1-3 懂得一种语言你就能遣词造句。懂得一种语言意味着你能够说出前人未说过的话，也能听懂在此之前无人说过的话。语言学家称这种能力为语言运用的创造属性。 12-1-4 Knowing a language enables you to combine words to form phrases, and phrases to form senten