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Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sen
Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sen
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2010-08-04
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Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, beliefs, and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense, every group has a culture, however savage, undeveloped, or uncivilized it may seem to us.
To the professional anthropologist(人类学者), there is no intrinsic (本质的) superiority of one culture over another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic rank among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grunts and groans. While it is possible that language in general began as a series of grunts and groans, it is a fact established by the study of" backward" languages that no spoken tongue answers that description today. Most languages of uncivilized groups are, by our most severe standards, extremely complex, delicate, and ingenious pieces of machinery for the transfer of ideas. They fall behind our Western languages not in their sound patterns or grammatical structures, which usually are fully adequate for all language needs, but only in their vocabularies, which reflects the objects and activities known to their speakers. Even in this department, however, two things are to be noted: 1. All languages seem to possess the machinery for vocabulary expansion, either by putting together words already in existence or by borrowing them from other languages and adapting them to their own system. 2. The objects and activities requiring names and distinctions in "backward" languages, while different from ours, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A Western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness (" this" and "that" ); some languages or the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or to the person addressed, or remote from both, or out of sight, or in the past, or in the future.
This study of language, in turn, casts a new light upon the claim of the anthropologists: all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
The author says that professional linguists recognize that ______.
选项
A、Western languages are superior to Eastern languages
B、all languages came from grunts and groans
C、the hierarchy of languages is difficult to understand
D、there is no hierarchy of languages
答案
D
解析
细节理解题。本题考查主题的延伸:职业语言学家有什么观点。根据文章首段所阐明的观点:每个种族都有文化,然后第二段引入本文观点:文化无贵贱。进而引申至语言学家的观点:语言上也无贵贱之分。所以D为正确答案。C选项“语言的等级性很难理解”有一定的干扰性,但是只要明确语言无贵贱、无等级的观点,那么C选项就是错误的。
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