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Unit 3 Pub Talk and the King’s English(1)
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I. Analysis of the Title
Pub is usually a place for low class people to get together. The meet friends there or go there to have a drink or just to relax. And what about the language? How is it related to language? To King’s language which belongs to the upper class or the well-educated people. How could these two totally unrelated things put together?
What is “king’s English”? How is it related to standard English?
II. Background Information of the Text and the Author
This topic can be introduced in several ways:
1. Chinese people’s oral English are commonly commented by foreigners or foreign teachers as “bookish” English;
2. by telling a joke about the first Chinese delegation to visit soviet union after China ’s opening its door to the outside world. The soviet union asked an old scholar as an interpreter and his Chinese is like the ancient classic Chinese.
3. just to raise some question like the different expressions, such as standard English, social dialect, regional dialect, or writers of local colorism, such as Mark Twain or Jia Pinwa in China .
4. or the topic might be introduced by mentioning the “plain English movement” in academic writing.
III. Detailed Study of the text
Paragraph 1-4 Introductory part
The students should pay special attention in this part to how the topic is ushered in.
1. the definition of conversation: how humanis different from the animal. Conversation is human-specific. [remember that in the first para animal is concerned and in the last para this is echoed back.]
2. the charm of conversation: no one knows where it starts and where it ends. In this para, one sentence is special.
“… as it meanders or leaps and sparkles or just glows ”
how could we draw a tree diagram to illustrate its syntactic structure?
3. the introducing of pub talk in Britain . The characteristics of pub talk – not deeply involved inother people’s lives.
sparkle verb [I]
1 to shine brightly with a lot of small points of light:
The snow/sea sparkled in the sunlight.
2 If a person or performance sparkles, they areenergetic, interesting and exciting:
Alice is shy and quiet at parties, but her sister really sparkles!
4. in a pub talk, “the king’s English” became a topic. That is a very natural way to introduce the topic.
In a way, this reminds us of the ways to introduce a topic mentioned by Aristotle. Through an anecdote. And in the first two paragraphs, the topic is introduced in a top-down fashion.
desultory adjective FORMAL without a clear plan or purpose and sho
wing little effort or interest:
She made a desultory attempt at conversation.
He wandered around, clearing up in a desultory way.
desultorily adverb FORMAL
alchemy noun [U]
1 a type of chemistry, especially from about 1100 to 1500, which dealt with trying to find a way to change ordinary metals into gold and withtrying to find a medicine which would cure any disease
2 a process that is so effective that it seems like magic:
She manages, by some extraordinary alchemy, to turn the most ordinary of ingredients into the most delicious of dishes.
tart (BEHAVIOUR) adjective (especially of a wayof speaking) quick or sharp and unpleasant:
a tart remark/comment/reply
Paragraph 5-8 very detailed and concrete description of the instance of a pub conversation – the king’s English case. It is presented in such a way to show or to illustrate the characteristics of charms of pub talk – it is free talk and aimless. The talk goes from the British pub to Australia , then to the Saxon churls and the Norman conquerors.
It serves as an example to illustrate the point. It is much better than logically reasoning and debating. I will say that the author employs the case study method here.
In this part, one pattern in ending paras is emerging.
1. They are ready to let it go. In para2.
2. it could still go ignorantly on. In para 6.
3. The conversation was on wings. In para 8.
4. we are still the heirs to it. In para 11
5. … and it rings true. In para 12
churl: a medieval peasant; a rude ill-bred person.
snob noun [C] MAINLY DISAPPROVING a person who respects and likes only people who are of a high social class, and/or a person who has extremely high standards who is not satisfied by the things that ordinary people like:
He's a frightful snob - if you haven't been to the right school he probably won't even speak to you.
I'm afraid I'm a bit of a wine snob/a snob where wine is concerned.
snobbish like a snob:
My brother is very snobbish about cars.
snobbery noun [U] (ALSO snobbishness) DISAPPROVING behaviour and opinions that are typical of a snob:
She accused me of snobbery because I sent mysons to a private school.
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