1、单击此处编辑母版标题样式,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢。本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢。本资料仅供参考!,单击此处编辑母版文本样式,第二级,第三级,第四级,第五级,*,单击此处编辑母版标题样式,本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢。本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。本资料仅供参考,不能作为科学依据。谢谢。本资料仅供参考!,A Cultural History of the English Language,1/32,1,Agenda,Introduction,Old Englis
2、h,Middle English,Early Modern English,Present-Day English,World Englishes,2/32,2,Introduction,Definition of Language,Functions of the Language,The Origin of Language,Families of Languages,The Indo-European Family,Languages Change,3/32,3,What is Language?,Language is a purely human and non-instinctiv
3、e method of communicating ideas,emotions and desires by means of voluntarily produced symbols.,Sapir(1921),萨丕尔(1921),:语言是人类非本能交际方式,经过有意发出声音或写出语言符号等伎俩,来到达传递思想、交流感情和满足欲望目标。,L,anguage is a set of sentences,each finite in length and constructed out of a finite set of elements.,Chomsky(1957):,乔姆斯基(1957):
4、语言是一套句子集合,每句长度有限,且由有限语言成份组成。,4/32,4,Human,Symbols,System,C,ommunication,5/32,5,Funtions of Language?,6/32,6,The,Origin of Language,The Tower of Babel,7/32,7,Five Theories of the Origins of Language,The Bow-Wow Theory,The Pooh-Pooh Theory,The Ding-Dong Theory,The o-he-Ho Theory,The La-la Theory,Otto
5、 Jespersen(1860-1943),Danish linguist,8/32,8,The top 20 languages,1.Mandarin Chinese,2.English,3.Spanish,4.Hindi,5.Arabic,6.Portuguese,7.Bengali 孟加拉语,8.Russian,9.Japanese,10.German,11.French,12.Javaness,13.Korean,14 Italian,D.Crystal,()The Cambridge Encyclopedia of Language,9/32,9,Language Families,
6、10/32,10,Types of Linguistic Classification,Genetic Classification,谱系分类法,Typological classification,类型分类法,11/32,11,Typ,ologcial classification is to group the langauges into structural types,on the basis of phonology,grammar or vocabulary rather than in terms of any real or assumed historical relati
7、onshop.,12/32,12,Isolating,analytic or root languages,Inflectional(Fusional)languages,Agglutinating languages,Polysynthetic languages,13/32,13,Isolating,analytic or root languages,:words consist of single morphemes;most words consist only of a root.Mandarin Chinese,Vietnamese;,孤立语,我 买 橘子 吃,14/32,14,
8、Inflectional(Fusional)languages,屈折语,:,words consist of stem and affixes which often mark several grammatical categories simultaneously.Greek,Latin,Sanskrit,Russian.,e.g.The biggest boys have been asking.,15/32,15,Agglutinating languages:,粘着语,:,words are built up out of a long sequentce of units,with
9、 each unit expressing a particular grammatical meaning,in a clear one-to-one way.Finnish,Hungarian,Estonian,Swahili斯瓦希里人语,Turkish,Japanese form words in this way.,Examples in Estonian,1.Ta on kohvikus.,he is coffeehousein,He is in the coffee house.,2.Lhme kohvikusse.,gowe coffeehouseinto,Let us go i
10、nto the coffee house.,3.Ma tulen uuest kohvikust.,I come newfrom coffeehousefrom,I am coming out of the new coffee house.,16/32,16,Polysynthetic languages,多式综合语,:,words are foten very long and complex,containing a mixture of aglutinating and inflectional features.They consist of long strings of stem
11、s and affixes,which may translate as an entire English sentence,as in Eskimo,Mohawk,Australian languages.,1.rikuyki I see you.,2.rikuykiik I see you all.,3.rikuykiku We see you.,riku:see,yki:first person singular actor and second person singular object,ik:marks object as plural,ku:marks actor as plu
12、ral,17/32,17,The Language Families of the World,18/32,18,The Indo-European Family,English,German,Swedish,French,Italian,Spanish,winter,Winter,Winter,Hiver,Inverno,Invierno,foot,Fus,Fot,Peid,Peide,Pie,two,zwei,Tva,Deux,Due,Dos,me,mich,Mig,Moi,Me,me,19/32,19,Discovery of Sanskrit,“,The Sanskrit langua
13、ge,is of a wonderful structure;more perfect than the Greek,more copious than the Latin,and more exquisitely refined than either,there is a similar reason,though not quite so forcible,for supposing that both the Celtic,though blended with a very different idiom,had the same origin with the Sanskrit;a
14、nd the Old Persian might be added to the same family”,Sir William Jones(1746-94),20/32,20,Indo-European family of languages 印度-欧罗巴语系,Latin and the,modern Romance,languages,拉丁语,罗曼诸语言,The Germanic,languages,日尔曼语族,The Indo-Iranian,languages,印度-伊,朗语族,including,Hindi and Sanskrit,梵语,The Slavic,Languages:
15、斯拉夫语族,e.g.Russian,The Celtic,Languages,凯尔特语族,,包含爱尔兰语,,苏格兰盖尔语,,Gaelic languages,高卢语,康沃,尔语,威尔士,语及布列塔尼语,The Baltic,languages,波罗地语族,of,Latvian and,Lithuanian,(but not,Estonian);,Greek,.,21/32,21,Germanic,East,North,West,Gothic,Icelandic,Norwegian,Danish,Swedish,High,Low,German,Yiddish,Dutch,Flemish,Afr
16、ikaans,Englsih,22/32,22,Language Change,What changes,?,How does language change?,Why,23/32,23,Sound change,Grammatical change,Spelling change,Semantic change,24/32,24,Some types of semantic change,Extension:,e.g.office,salary,Narrowing:,e.g.meat,deer,girl,starve,Shift:,e.g.navigator,Figurative use,e
17、g.crane,Amelioration:,e.g.naughty,Pejoration 语义转贬:,e.g.nortorious,New words and old,25/32,25,Some surprising etymologies:,villainfarm labourer,taxation fault finding,prettyingenious,灵巧,有独创性,vulgarordinary,slywise,orchardgarden(without fruit trees),26/32,26,bribesteal,dout fear,handsome easy to hand
18、le(15th century),happylucky,sillyhappy(13th century),tall handsome(14th century),wallet bag for holding goods for journey,holidayholy day,27/32,27,How does language change?,Change from above,Change from below,28/32,28,William Labov s study,Saks,Macys,Kleins,William Labovs study,1970s,29/32,29,Another study,Marthas Vineyard,30/32,30,Movewment of peoples,A shift of power,Technology,31/32,31,Homework,Groupwork,The magic power of language,32/32,32,






