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陈建民、陈章太(1988)对社会语言学的定义和西方学者对社会语言学的定义的主要差别在哪里?

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陈建民和陈章太(1988)提出中国社会语言学是一门应用学科。他们认为,中国有丰富的语言宝库,有几千年的文明史,有悠久的传统文化,具有中国特色的社会语言学表现在高度重视自己的语言发展变化以及与之有关的社会历史和传统文化,是研究语言与社会共变、语言与文化共存的一门应用学科。西方学者认为社会语言学是研究语言变异及社会文化现象、社会生活现象的一门学科。

单项选择题

The Chinese of 3,500 years ago believed that the earth was a chariot, and the sky like a curved canopy stretched above it. The canopy was nine layers thick, and it sloped slightly to the northwest, as a cataclysm had broken one of its supporting columns. This gentle slope explained the movement of the stars from east to west.

What is implied in this passage
A. The sun was worshiped by all the Chinese people.
B. The sun was thought of as a cock.
C. Chinese religion and astronomy were closely interrelated.
D. Sundials were first used by the Chinese.

According to these ancient Chinese beliefs, the sun spent the night on earth and ascended to the sky each morning from the luminous valley of the east by climbing the branches of an immensely tall sacred tree. To the Chinese people, the sun was the incarnation of goodness, beauty, and truth. In popular imagination, the sun was represented as a cock that little by little assumed human form. His battles with the dragons, which personified evil in their beliefs, accounted for the momentary disappearances of the sun that men now call eclipses. Many of the Chinese people worshiped the sun, but in the vast and complicated organization of the Chinese gods, the sun was of only secondary importance.Along with these unsophisticated beliefs about the sun, the Chinese evolved a science of astronomy based upon observation——though essentially religious——which enabled them to predict eclipses of the sun and the movements of the stars. Such predictions were based on calculations made by using a gnomon——an object whose shadow could be used as a measure, as with a sundial or simpler shadow pointers. Moreover, with the naked eye, the Chinese observed sunspot, a phenomenon not then known to their contemporaries.

单项选择题 B型题