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Speech and Writing It is a widely held misconception that writing is more perfect than speech. To many people, writing somehow seems more correct and more stable, whereas speech can be careless, corrupted, and susceptible to change. Some people even go so far as to identify language with writing and to regard speech as a secondary form of language used imperfectly to approximate the ideals of the written language. One of the basic assumptions of modern linguistics, however, is that speech is primary and writing is secondary. The most immediate manifestation of language is speech and not writing. Writing is simply the representation of speech in another physical medium. Spoken language encodes thought into a physically transmittable form. Writing is a two-stage process. All units of writing, whether letter or characters, are based on units of speech, i.e. words, sounds, or syllables. When linguists study language, they take the spoken language as their best source of data and their object of description (except in instances of languages like Latin for which there are no longer any speakers). What gives rise to the misconception that writing is more perfect than speech? There are several reasons. For one thing, the product of writing is usually more aptly worded and better organized, containing fewer errors, hesitations, and incomplete sentences than are found in speech. This perfection of writing can be explained by the fact that writing is the result of deliberation, correction, and revision while speech is the spontaneous and simultaneous formulation of ideas; writing is therefore less subject to the constraint of time than speech is. In addition, writing is ultimately associated with education and educated speech.
【題組】49. How are speech and writing related?
(A) All speech comes from units of writing.
(B) They are a two-stage process in which speech comes first.
(C) Writing is another demonstration of speech through a different mode.
(D) Written language turns speech into a concrete form.

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正確答案表給的答案是（C），而阿摩提供的是（D），我個人認為正解應為（D）的原因是第二段提到「Writing is simply the representation of speech in another physical medium.」以及「Writing is a two-stage process. All units of writing, whe.....看完整詳解


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