第七讲-真题精读及高频词汇 语言篇.pptx

精读及高频词汇语言类;C4T2P1; Never before has the planet’s linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. ; At the moment, we are heading for about three or four languages dominating the world. ; Isolation breeds linguistic diversity. ; The critically endangered languages are those that are only spoken by the elderly. ;Practice; Why do people reject the language of their parents? ; It begins with a crisis of confidence, when a small community finds itself alongside a larger, wealthier society, people lose faith in their culture. ; When the next generation reaches their teens, they may not want to be induced into the old traditions. ; Quite often, governments try to kill off a minority language by banning its use in public or discouraging its use in schools, all to promote national unity. ; The deadliest weapon is not government policy but economic globalisation. ; Native Americans do not lose pride in their language, but they have had to adapt to socio-economic pressures, they cannot refuse to speak English if most commercial activity is in English. ; Language is also intimately bound up with culture, so it may be difficult to preserve one without the other. ;Practice; If a person shifts from Navajo to English, they lose the traditional culture. ; The loss of diversity may also deprive us of different ways of looking at the world. ; There is mounting evidence that learning a language produces physiological changes in the brain, and this could affect our thoughts and perceptions. ; The patterns and connections we make among various concepts may be structured by the linguistic habits of our community. ; The key to fostering diversity is for people to learn their ancestral tongue as well as the dominant language. ; Most of the endangered languages will not survive without a large degree of bilingualism. ;word vocabulary term terminology lexical expression utterance ; audience frequency of usage accuracy accurate ; 新浪微博：@曹脆脆是个饼 学员交流QQ群：111041732