一、复习要求：

要求考生熟悉英语语言的功能、规则、形式与结构，学会优化自己所使用的语言，掌握与语言和文学等有关的基本概念和基本理论，能够合理、有效、且灵活自如地运用各体英语，具备较为精深的语言功底，尤其是在英语的读、写、译方面的功底。

二、主要复习内容：

1、Gender, Race, and Language Conflict

Sexism in English; rapport-talk and report-talk; anti-male bias in English; how names define relationships; names for the race; black English.

2、Right Words, Wrong Words, My Words

What dictionaries can do for us; four-letter words; the E word; taboo language; English that belongs to everybody.

3、Language and Cultural Diversity

Vanishing languages; whether English should be the law; bilingual children; Americanization; names in the melting pot.

4. The Language of Politics and Advertising

How language may serve as the rhetoric of democracy; the doublespeak of weasel words; unprotected sex talk; types of propaganda.

5. Technology and Language

Gender wars in cyberspace; C’est what?; techniques of coinage.

6. Writers and the Writing Process

Some instructions on writing and life; how to hold the reader; writing as rewriting; concision; computers and writing.

7. Reader’s Choice (4^th edition)

三、参考书：

1. Roberts, W. H. (2000). About Languages: A Reader for Writers（5^th edition）. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press.

2. Clarke, M.A., et al. (2008). Reader’s Choice (4th edition). Shanghai: World Book Publishing Company.