高级英语精品课程教案——PubTalkandtheKing’sEnglish.doc

Lesson Three Pub Talk and the King’s English Background Information Henry Fairlie: he was born in London, came to the U.S. in the mid-1960s, working for The New Republic. He is known as a feisty 活跃的chronicler年代纂辑 of U.S. politics and moes. He died at the age of 66, after a stroke and heart attack. Pub: also known as the public house, is a center of social life for a large number of people (esp. men) in Britain. Pubs, besides offering a wide variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and providing hot and cold food, serve as places for meeting friends and for entertainment. Many have, for instance, television sets, amusement machines and juke-boxes and provide facilities for playing darts, billiards, dominoes and similar games. Some also employ musicians for evening entertainment, such as piano playing, folk singing and modern jazz. Metaphor from a cognitive linguistic point of view Metaphors, according to the cognitive linguists, are something more than rhetorical device or phenomenon; they reflect people’s way of thinking about things. Throughout their book Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson repeatedly remind us that metaphor is a basic means of human cognition of the real world, a way of thinking, a mode of knowing the world and a manner of conceptualizing the experiences. A popular belief of the cognitive linguistics is that metaphor is the process of the mapping or projection from the source concept onto the target concept. eg. Her anger boiled over. HUMAN BODY IS A CONTAINER/ANGER IS FLUID. Thus the fact that when fluid in a container is heated beyond a certain limit, it will overflow corresponds to the fact that when anger increases beyond a certain limit, a person will lose control and has a catharsis宣泄of his overwhelming anger. Nash: Thomas Nash or Nashe (1567-1601) was a journalist with a keen weapon of satire, whose pamphlets appealed to public interest in serious questions, such as the power of the bishops, and in private scandal. Dekker