Guide to Unit 1 Awareness of Our Language 3
Activity 1 Language,Homo Sapiens and Civilization 3
Task 1 Reflect on language 3
Task 2 Is language in the brain? 6
Task 3 Is language outside the brain? 7
Task 4 Why so many languages? 9
Task 5 Language and civilization 19
Task 1 Word magic 23
Activity 2 Traditional and Popular Views of Language 23
Task 2 The power of language 25
Task 3 Is the name the person? 26
Task 4 Written language as social status 31
Activity 3 Language:Yours and Not Yours 33
Task 1 Is the language you speak yours? 34
Task 2 Language:a dialect with gun and powder 35
Task 3 Towards a linguistic science 36
Unit Review 38