advE 2-3 pub talk final 新版张汉熙高级英语第二册第二课ppt.ppt

Unit 3. Pub Talk and the King’s English Sometimes mistakenly known for coining the term the Establishment（权威人士的统称；当权派）, an analysis of how all the right people came to run Britain largely through social connections, he spent 36 years as a prominent freelance writer on both sides of the Atlantic. He is author of The Kennedy Promise (1973), an early critique of the U.S. presidency of John F. Kennedy, The Life of Politics (1969), and The Spoiled Child of the Western World. Henry Fairlie: By the ‘Establishment’, I do not only mean the centres of official power—though they are certainly part of it—but rather the whole matrix矩阵；模型 of official and social relations within which power is exercised. The exercise of power in Britain (more specifically, in England) cannot be understood unless it is recognised that it is exercised socially. The term was quickly picked up in newspapers and magazines all over London, making Fairlie famous. However, he would later determine that Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882,American, transcendentalism超验主义) had really been the first to use the Establishment in this fashion. 0.2.1 What does “Pub Talk” mean? (features: informal, colloquial, nearly all-inclusive/ register/ field, mode, and tenor of discourse) 0.3 What is Kings English? Field, mode, tenor of discourse The writer concludes: “the King’s English…is a class representation of reality.”He means “the King’s English” is used and held up as a model or standard by the ruling class, the educated people while the working people mock and jeer at it. (tenor? ) 0.4 Brief history of Britain and English 1.The native people in Britain: Celts Celt (language) 2. Roman Conquest 43 AD, ruled for 400 years Latin (language) 3. In 449 Angles, Saxon, and Jutes朱特人 from Northwest of Germany , conquered the most part of England English old English /??glz/ /d?u?ts/ 4. 9th century, Scandinavian conquest