unit2_language_points课件2（牛津高中必修3）.pptVIP

Unit 2 Language Quotation from Humboldt No one when he uses a word has in mind exactly the same thing that another has, and the difference, however tiny, sends its tremors throughout language. By Wilhelm von Humboldt 在使用某个词的时候，没有一个人脑子里想像的东西与另一个人的完全相同。这种差异，无论多么细微，其影响（震颤）贯穿整个语言。 ―洪保德（德国） Passage 1 Language Language is a part of culture. (Language is also the carrier of culture.) Linguistic symbols are nearly all arbitrary. (语言符号【字、词】几乎全部具有任意性) They are conventions by which certain sounds are attached to certain objects and events. (语言符号是约定俗成的：某些声音被固定在（指称）某些物体和某些事件上。) Every language has a str