加德纳所著的《大学学术英语读写教程(下学生用书)》以五个与人生和社会相关的专题(theme)为主线,每个专题由五篇课文组成,文章体裁、学科视角、作者身份和文化背景都各不相同,这样做的目的是使内容更加丰富多彩,使学生的视野更加开阔,使学科的交叉渗透更加通识化。五个专题分别是:1)跨文化交际;2)文化偏见与成见;3)性别角色;4)工作意义;5)教育意义。取材来源于大学教材、期刊论文、报刊文章、短篇小说、民间故事等;文章体裁包括论说文、记叙文、诗歌等;学科视角涉及社会学、语言学、心理学、性别学、国际关系学、跨文化交际学等。作者文化背景和种族背景各有不同,身份也多种多样。课文作者既有男也有女,性别相对平衡。每篇课文都从对作者及其作品的介绍入手,每个专题都提供与其相关的精彩引言语录。
Preface
CHAPTER ONE CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Reading Skill:Identifying Main Ideas and Supporting Details
Brief Quotes
Prereading Activities
GARY ALTHEN,American Values and Assumptions
A foreign student adviser analyzes major cultural patterns in the United States.
Reading Journal
Meaning and Technique
Main Ideas
Well-Written Paragraphs
Supporting Details
Drawing Inferences
Vocabulary:Negative Prefixes
Vocabulary:In Context
Discussion and Debate
Preconceptions and Stereotypes
Writing Activities
Objective Description vs.Value Judgment
Prereading Activities
LISA DAVIS,Where Do We Stand?
A journalist describes cross-cultural differences in the use of personal space.
Reading Journal
Meaning and Technique
Drawing Inferences
Vocabulary:Idioms
Vocabulary:In Context
Discussion and Debate
Writing Activities
Compare-and-Contrast Signals
Prereading Activities
PREMCHAND,a Coward
In this short story,an Indian writer focuses on the lives of two university students from different castes who fall in love.
Reading Journal
Vocabulary:Figures of Speech
Additional Readings
DEBORAH TANNEN,Sex,Sighs,and Conversation:Why Men and Women Can't Communicate
A linguistics professor explores differences in the ways females and males use language.
JOHN GODFREY SAXE,The Blind Men and the Elephant:A Hindu Fable
Six blind men argue about what an elephant most resembles.
The Adjustment Process in a New Culture
A graph illustrates the five common stages of cultural adjustment.
Making Connections
CHAPTER TWO STEREOTYPING AND DISCRIMINATION
CHAPTER THREE Gender roles
CHAPTER FOUR Work
CHAPTER FIVE Education
Appendix A
Appendix B
Appendix C
Appendix D
Appendix E
Appendix F
Appendix G
Glossary
Index