首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed langu
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed langu
admin
2013-06-17
26
问题
Sign has become a scientific hot button. Only in the past 20 years have specialists in language study realized that signed languages are unique--a speech of the hand. They offer a new way to probe how the brain generates and understands language, and throw new light on an old scientific controversy: whether language, complete with grammar, is something that we are born with. or whether it is a learned behavior. The current interest in sign language has roots in the pioneering work of one rebel teacher at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., the world’s only liberal arts university for deaf people.
When Bill Stoker went to Gallaudet to teach English, the school enrolled him in a course in signing. But Stoker noticed something odd: among themselves, students signed differently from their classroom teacher.
Stoker had been taught a sort of gestural code, each movement of the hands representing a word in English. At the time, American Sign Language (ASL) was thought to be no more than a form of pidgin English (混杂英语). But Stoker believed the "hand talk" his students used looked richer. He wondered: Might deaf people actually have a genuine language? And could that language be unlike any other on Earth? It was in 1955, when even deaf people dismissed their signing as "substandard". Stoker’s idea was academic heresy (异端邪说).
It is 37 years later. Stoker-now devoting his time to writing and editing books and journals and to producing video materials on ASL and the deaf culture--is having lunch at a cafe near the Gallaudet campus and explaining how he started a revolution. For decades educators fought his idea that signed languages are natural languages like English, French and Japanese. They assumed language must be based on speech, the modulation (调节) of sound. But sign language is based on the movement of hands, the modulation of space. "What I said," Stoker explains, "is that language is not mouth stuff-- it’s brain stuff."
According to the passage, the study of sign language is thought to be______.
选项
A、an approach to simplifying the grammatical structure of a language
B、an attempt to clarify misunderstanding about the origin of language
C、a challenge to traditional views on the nature of language
D、a new way to take at the learning of language
答案
D
解析
原文第一段第三句与D项题内容相符。因此,D项是正确答案。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/lXM7777K
0
大学英语四级
相关试题推荐
Formanypeopletoday,readingisnolongerrelaxation.Italsomeanswork.Tokeepuptheirworktheymustreadletters,report
Formanypeopletoday,readingisnolongerrelaxation.Italsomeanswork.Tokeepuptheirworktheymustreadletters,report
Formanypeopletoday,readingisnolongerrelaxation.Italsomeanswork.Tokeepuptheirworktheymustreadletters,report
Howusefularetheviewsofpublicschoolstudentsabouttheirteachers?Quiteuseful,accordingtopreliminaryresultsrele
A、Itlastslong.B、It’sofafamousbrand.C、It’sloudandclear.D、It’sfashionable.A语义理解题。男士说他正在考虑买个新的、更加时尚的手机,因为现在的这部手机开始出问题
A、Thedressistooexpensive.B、Peoplechangefashionseverytwoyears.C、Thedresswillbeoutoffashionsoon.D、Thedresswil
A、Notgettingwhathewants.B、Acustomthatisnewtohim.C、Callingupcustomers.D、Someofhisgoodfriends.B
VisitorsusuallyfindmostAmericans,foralltheirinformality,verypolite.Thisreputationseemstorestlargelyonthegreat
Whenyouhavetomeetsomeonefromadifferentculture,beprepared.Ifyouunderstandculturaldifferences,you’llbeabetter【
A、Anoticebytheelectricityboard.B、Adspromotingelectricappliances.C、Thedescriptionofathiefindisguise.D、Anewpoli
随机试题
在:Excel中,当使用了错误的参数或运算对象类型时,系统会产生_______错误值。
患者,女性,25岁。在染发后觉头皮瘙痒、灼热,头皮发生边界清楚的红斑,可见丘疹。该患者最可能的诊断为
A、养阴生津,润肠B、泻火解毒,定惊C、活血散瘀,退虚热D、祛瘀止痛,清肝火E、补肾益精,补脾益气除清热凉血外,生地黄还能()。
氯丙嗪的作用原理错误的是
下列不属于资信证明的是()。
甲、乙、丙、丁四人拟共同出资设立一个有限合伙企业,其中甲、乙为普通合伙人,丙、丁为有限合伙人。在其订立合伙协议时约定的下列事项中,符合合伙企业法律制度规定的有()。
根据税收征收管理法律制度的规定。纳税人办理下列事项时,必须提供税务登记证件的情形是()。
根据以下资料,回答下列问题。2012年,全国国内旅游人数29.57亿人次,比上年增长12.0%。其中,城镇居民19.33亿人次。2012年,全国国内旅游收入22706.22亿元人民币,比上年增长17.6%。2012年全年入境外国游客人数比上年增长0.3%
某宿舍住着若干个研究生。其中,一个是大连人,两个是北方人,一个是云南人,两个人这学期只选修了逻辑哲学,三个人这学期选修了古典音乐欣赏。假设以上的介绍涉及了这寝室中所有的人,那么。这寝室中最少可能是几个人?最多可能是几个人?
ForeignLanguageStudyinAmericaForeignlanguagestudystarts【T1】______formanystudentsinAmerica.Somestudents【T2】____
最新回复
(
0
)