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The argument concerning the use, or the status, or the reality of black English is rooted in American history and has absolutely nothing to do with the question which the argument supposes itself to be posing. The argument has nothing to do with language itself but with the role of language. Language, incontestably, reveals the speaker. Language; also, far more dubiously, is meant to define the other --- and, in this case, the other is refusing to be defined by a language that has never been able to recognize him.
People evolve a language in order to describe and thus control their circumstances, or in order not to be submerged by a reality that they cannot articulate. (And, if they cannot articulate it, they are submerged.) A Frenchman living in Paris speaks a subtly and crucially different language from that of the man living in Marseilles; neither sounds very much like a man living in Quebec; and they would all have great difficulty in apprehending what the man from Guadeloupe, or Martinique, is saying, to say nothing of the man from Senegal --- although the "common" language of all these areas is French. But each has paid, and is paying, a different price for this "common" language, in which, as it turns out, they are not saying, and cannot be saying, the same things. They each have very different realities to articulate, or control.
What joins all languages, and all men, is the necessity to confront life, in order, not inconceivably, to outwit (智胜) death: The price for this is the acceptance, and achievement, of one’s temporal identity. So that, for example, though it is not taught in the schools the south of France still clings to its ancient and musical Provencal, which resists being described as a "dialect’’. And much of the tension in the Basque countries, and in Wales, is due to the Basque and Welsh determination not to allow their languages to be destroyed. This determination also feeds the flames in Ireland, for among the many indignities the Irish have been forced to undergo at English hands is the English contempt for their language.
It goes without saying, then, that language is also a political instrument, means, and proof of power. It is the most vivid and crucial key to identity: it reveals the private identity, and connects one with, or divorces one from the larger public, or communal identity: There have been, and are, times and places, when to speak a certain language could be erous, even fatal Or, one may speak the same language, but in such a way that one’s antecedents(身世,经历) are revealed, or (one’s hopes) hidden.
According to the passage, language reveals the speaker in the way that ______.

题目标签:智胜经历身世
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【多选题】民间审计发展经历的阶段有:

A.
利润表审计阶段
B.
查证防弊阶段
C.
资产负债表审计阶段
D.
财务报表审计阶段

【多选题】关于盖茨比的自述身世,内容包括()

A.
中西部有钱人家的儿子-家里人死光了
B.
在美国长大,但在牛津受的教育
C.
祖祖辈辈都是在牛津受教育的
D.
小时是个水手

【多选题】人类传播文明经历的三次革命分别是

A.
印刷术的发明
B.
交通工具的进步
C.
广播电视的问世
D.
大机器生产
E.
计算机和通信技术的发展

【多选题】经历与经验的区别是什么?

A.
经历比经验重要
B.
经验是对经历的反思与总结
C.
经验比经历重要
D.
没有经历也很难有经验

【多选题】女性一生所经历的时期为()。

A.
新生儿期
B.
胎儿期
C.
青春期
D.
性成熟期
E.
更年期和老年期