【PPT】语言与语言学.pptVIP

《语言与语言学》 主讲人：张兴 Unit 1 Awareness of Our Language Activity 1 Language, Home Sapiens and Civilization (语言，智人和文明) (P.3) Activity 2 Traditional and Popular Views of Language (P.23) Activity 3 Language: Yours and Not Yours? (P.33) 学习目标： Be aware that language is crucial to human evolution Be aware that language is crucial to human civilization Be aware of some traditional and popular views about lan-guage Get a gist of what linguistic science is about Activity 1 Language, Home Sapiens and Civilization (语言，智人和文明) (P.3) Is language more important than eyes, mouth, and hands? (P.4) Is language in the brain or outside the brain? (P.2-9) Why so many languages? (P.9) Language and civilization (P.19) Is language more important than eyes, mouth, and hands? (P.4) Guide 教授题目为《感谢语言》的公开演讲认为语言比眼、嘴、手等器官更重要。（参见Guide 教授的公开演讲） Guide 教授的观点是： What makes apes remain beasts, and what makes homo sapiens become “us” — people? The secret lies in the magic word — language. The point I want to drive home is that we must appreciate the fact that we homo sapiens possess language and that we owe civilized and meaningful life to it. Without it we would have remained in the jungles, with the constant fear of being eaten raw by fierce beasts. Is language more important than eyes, mouth, and hands? (P.4) Guide 教授的证据是： The early attempt was made by Professor Kellogg and his wife Mrs Kellogg in 1931. They bought an ape named Gua. Gua was brought up as if she was a human baby, and was actually reared alongside the Professor’ s son Donald. Gua was fed with a spoon, bathed, pinned up in nappies, and continuously exposed to human speech. Can you guess what was the result? Donald spoke quite normally, wherea