【解答】
Ⅲ [出典：Richard W. Bailey, "English Among the Languages".]
25. (e) Modern multilinguals look with surprise on those who believe that a single language will serve them better than several.
26. (b) English, as seen by those who did not acquire it as a mother tongue, has been characterized in an astonishing variety of ways: unimportant, invasive, empowering, destructive are among the words used to describe it.
27. (h) The Bible, for example, relates a linguistic miracle that took place in the first century AD when the followers of Jesus suddenly became fluent in the languages of the many visitors to (and residents of) Jerusalem.
28. (a) As Stephen of Hungary counselled his successor in the eleventh century, 'The utility of foreigners and guests is so great that they can be given a place of sixth importance among the royal ornaments'.
29. (g) Old-fashioned language histories have often endeavoured to look at a 'national' language as if it were a single (and triumphant) result of some Darwinian process of selection.
30. (d) In recognizing that the past is often like the present, we need to search backwards for evidence of this process of accomodation.
31. (f) Old English already had a word for the crucial social role of the translator - wealhstod - who stood at the interface of two languages.
0コメント