英语发展史_教学课件 Part 2People_in_the_Making_of_English.pptVIP

Halliday is an English linguist who developed an internationally influential grammar model, the systemic functional grammar (which also goes by the name of systemic functional linguistics [SFL]). Avram Noam Chomsky 1928 - Chomsky is credited with the creation of the theory of Generative Grammar, considered to be one of the most significant contributions to the field of linguistics made in the 20th century. “Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” “Human language appears to be a unique phenomenon, without significant analogue in the animal world.” “Any dictator would admire the uniformity and obedience of the U.S. media.” William Safire 1929-2009 Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. We shall support whatever the enemy opposes and oppose whatever the enemy supports. J.C. Wells 1939 - David Crystal 1941 - Crystal hypothesizes that globally English will both split and converge, with local variants becoming less mutually comprehensible and therefore necessitating the rise of what he terms World Standard Spoken English (cf International English). In his 2004 book The Stories of English, a general history of the English language, he wrote of the value he sees in linguistic diversity and the according of respect to varieties of English generally considered “non-standard”. He is a proponent of a new field of study, Internet linguistics. Questions? 1. What is the “One Cultural Revolution”? 2. What is your prediction of the future of the English language? 3. In what way could you compare English and Chinese? 4. Whom do you consider are the ten most influential people in the development of the English language? Mark Twain 1835-1910 Mark Twain and Plain English: Before the 20th century, English-language writers commonly used long sentences and a very complicated style. In some other European languages, such as German, the use of long sentences wa