高级英语第五册第9单元Text2总结

Summary and ResponseUnit9 Text ⅠPigskin EnglishIn this essay, the writer Robert recounted his investigation into the language of sportscasters. He believed that popular football commentators were mangling English grammar and setting a bad example for viewers. As a result, he found that sportscasters really speak as well as many TV news reporters.At first, he sat down in front of a TV set and watched football games attentively and listened to the commentators carefully with a notebook and a pen in his hand, ready to take note notes of instances of mangled English. Then the writer recounts the findings of his investigation. To compensate for the dullness TV has imposed on the game, the sportscasters keep up the verbal razzle-dazzle. Robert highly praised the English Madden speaks so colorfully and directly tells us that football commentators have brought about a variety of English characterized by regularity, colloquialism and elegance, which gives full play to the functions of language. At last, he states his viewpoint in a straightforward manner: Sportscasters do not speak any worse than newsmen at all.Nowadays, I think the media language has a strong influence on the way people use their English. With the development of globalization, English is widely used by most people all over the world; therefore, English used by media tends to spread widely. What’s more, the groups of people that most susceptible to media influence are the young. Because the youngsters like surfing the internet, watching TV, watching sports matches, watching entertainment programs and looking through news, especially for students who learn English, they tend to learn English with internet, they practice their English by listening to the BBC or VOA and other English news, as a result, they are widely exposed to the medias. Therefore, the media English has a great influence on the way people use English. And I think they all speak influence and well.Besides, the use of English is various. People from different areas, of different ages and sexes, having different occupations, belonging to different social classes, use language in different ways. The differences can be found in their pronunciation, grammar, vocabulary, etc. I think we should accept the differences in language, because every kind of language has its own history of development, and it has its own rules to observe. It is just their differences that enrich the content of language, or the language will be dull and boring.Text ⅡBlack EnglishIn this passage, the author argued for the recognition of the English spoken by American blacks as a distinct variety.Black English is regarded as a kind of inferior language by white Americans, and white Americans are hardly aware of the extent to which the great major of black Americans suffer from linguistic schizophreni a—of a unique sort. In fact, Blackpeople speak a dialect that has a strikingly different grammar and a sound system. But white men think Black people are trying to speak Standard English. Anyone who speaks Black English thinks that he is shameful as a user of an inferior kind of English. The whole subject of Black English is so tied up with both racism and good intention. Its radical departure from Standard English has nothing to do with the anatomy of race or with the educational deprivation. Black English is the result of five major influences: African language; West African pidgin; a Plantation Creole; Standard English and urbanization in the northern ghettos. However, among these influences, the second influence is more apparent because the languages spoken today by the descendants of slaves almost everywhere in the New Word. Like other languages, Black English uses a different set of rules than those of Standard English, so it should be recognized.I think every language should be recognized by everyone. There is no distinguishing of superiority and inferiority in language. But nowadays, it seems that people are tending to use the standard language, and they regard other languages as inferior languages which is a mispronunciation. For example, in china, the standard Chinese, that is, mandarin is learned by every student, so people think the standard Chinese is superior to any other languages. And in America, almost all people think the Standard English is superior to others, so they discriminate against Black English. Therefore, we get bogged down in a misunderstanding. The fact is that each language has its own rules to observe, and it is formed under many different influences, and it has its own history. As a result, it is grammatical consistent and it is generated by rules in the same way that the standard language is generated by rules. What different is that it uses a different set of rules than those of standard languages.Therefore, we should be fair to all the languages, especially the languages of minority nationality which have their own history and features. Because of their existence, the language culture is colorful, or it will be dull. So the diversity of languages is also a kind of cultural heritage, and we should set a high value on it.。