文档介绍：Language and Applied Linguistics
Unit 1 Awareness of our languages
Do you think that language is more important than our eyes, ears, mouth, etc? And what roles does language play in human society? (10%)
Language is more important than our eyes, ears, mouth, etc. without language human being will remain like apes and chimpanzees, and will have no civilization at all. With language, we anize our experiences of the material world, we can do things with language, we can manage interpersonal rations, we can produce talk, and so on.
In the Chinese culture, if someone is skillful in spoken Chinese, he or she may run the risk of being described as 油腔滑调whereas he or she is said to妙笔生辉 if he or she is skillful in writing a position. Can you explain this difference in attitude?
Speaking one’s mother tongue is spontaneous and almost effortless. However, it takes years of hard practice to write it well. Moreover, speech dies as soon as one finishes speaking, whereas writing can last for ever if one is determined to keep it. So naturally people trust writing more than speech.
Language users use language to do a lot of things, among which naming things is the oldest and the most fundamental.
Language users use language to do a lot of things, among which __________, __________ is the oldest and the most fundamental.
Unit 2 Physical Aspects of Language
Language can be represented by different media, . by __________, __________, __________, and ________. The language for blind people is represented in ________. For deaf and mute people there are _______ languages.
1)        Both English and Chinese make use of ingressive airflow in normal speech. ( )
2)        Modern Chinese uses a pictographic writing system. ( )
3)        English writing is both phonological and alphabetic. ( )
4) Chinese and English both have aspect and tense. ( )
5) The notion of week is typical of the Gregorian calendar. ( )
1) F 2) T 3) T 4) F 5)T
Use two or more Chinese characters to demonstrate t