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Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, belief and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense
Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, belief and ways of life of a given group of human beings. In this sense
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2013-01-20
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Culture is the total sum of all the traditions, customs, belief 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, there is no intrinsic superiority of one culture ever another, just as to the professional linguist there is no intrinsic hierarchy among languages.
People once thought of the languages of backward groups as savage, undeveloped forms of speech, consisting largely of grants and groans. While it is possible that language in ganeral 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 the 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 reflect 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 oars, are often surprisingly numerous and complicated. A western language distinguishes merely between two degrees of remoteness ("this" and "that"); some languages of the American Indians distinguish between what is close to the speaker, or 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 that all cultures are to be viewed independently, and without ideas of rank or hierarchy.
The author uses "backward" here to indicate that
选项
A、backward languages are connected with backward groups
B、backward languages are connected with backward cultures
C、backward languages am moving forward.
D、there is no such thing as backward languages
答案
D
解析
作者给backward一词加上了引号、表明自己虽然使用这个词,但与其通常的含义是不同的,从作者的结论来看,他不承认语言之间有等级划分,当然也就没有先进和落后之分,因此D应当是正确答案。
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