【免费】新编英语教程7课文讲解(综合英语7)

A New En glish Course (Level 7)

Unit One

Text I

En glish and America n Con cepts of Space

I. About the Author --- Edward Twitchell Hall (1914 ---), . anthropologist, author, and teacher, received his . degree in anthropology from Columbia University. He has taught at various institutions, such as Harvard Bus in ess School, the Illi nois In stitute of Tech no logy, and Northwester n

Uni versity. His works in clude: The Sile nt Lan guage (1959), a study of

nonv erbal com muni cati on, and The Hidde n Dime nsion (1966), a study of

“ social and personal space and man ' s perception of it. ” The present text, a selection from The Hidden Dimension , gives a contrast between En glish and America n con cepts of pers onal space.

About the author:

Dow n the drain

Edward ' s The Hidden Dimension, perhaps the scariest book (even scarier than 1984) I ever read. Scary, because it isn ' t fiction, but a

rather elaborate essay on anthropology and proxemic behavior. If Hall ' s right, things as disregard for other cultures, mindless urban development and demographic growth have gen erated a behavioral sink in which stress, crime, in tolera nee and physical and psychic disease grow everyday, and to makethings worse, our governments take measures that only accelerate the process. We are all going dow n the drain.

Put Ed Hall ' s In sights to Work in Your World

Ed Hall is one of the preeminent cultural anthropologists of all times.

His works, studies, and in sights in to the rich moder n an thropology reflect a life long passion he developed as a teenager in the 1930' s Southwest . assigned to work on white-managed WPAcrews alongside Navajo workers whose cultural beari ngs and world views were vastly differe nt tha n his own people ' s views.

Hidde n Dime nsions exam ines the cultural con texts of space, how people define their personal and community spaces as part of their cultural no rms.

Howfar apart or close do people of a similar culture feel comfortable sta nding or sitti ng n ext to one ano ther and in what circumsta nces Whe n do you feel someoneis “ in your space” This personal comfort zone differs culture to culture. Yours may be different than mine. Hall develops these

“ proxemics ” (proximity) in this book by observing and visiting with peoples from around the globe, and shares the wisdom gained with you so that you might expand your own world views and spatial orientations when mixing with foreign cultures to your own.

Well worth the sheckles to add this great work to your life ' s library. Collect all of Hall ' s works.

Best of the Best

A fabulous writing on how humanbeings react to and makeuse of special dista nee from a physical and psychological viewpo in t, . the study of proxemics. The type of book that should be reissued without fail by the publisher, though it is old, since it is a classic in its field. Actual nu merical dista nces and their effect / use / experie nee by huma ns are explained as well as much about eyesight and its abilities. Hall also expla ins how differe nt Euro cultures (Germa n, Fren ch, and others) plus

how America ns use space differe ntly. I ' mseldom this positive about any book but