第九讲抽象与具11.pptVIP

第九讲 抽象与具体Abstract and Concrete 目 的 要 求 仔细体会：导致英语普遍抽象的原因是什么？ 作 业 思考：为什么汉语是意像性语言？ P173 A.英语的逻辑和理性的显著特点就是抽象性 a. 亚里斯多德的形式逻辑和欧洲16-18世纪盛行的理性主义导致人们的思维注重“以理服人”，不注重“以情感人”。 Plato actually thought that these abstractions had a greater reality than the properties of objects in the physical world. P160 为了使语言表达冷静，必须多用名词、尤其是抽象名词。 An Englishman does not like to commit himself by being enthusiastic or too distressed. b. 抽象思维被认为是一种高级思维。是高度文明的象征。P161 Civilization means among other things increase of abstract terms and decrease of superfluous special words... The more advanced a language