Lesson-1-Pub-Talk-and-the-Kings-English-酒肆闲聊和国王英语.ppt

Language features 4. two different kinds of language colloquial expressions 俗语 on the rocks get out of bed on the wrong side 5. mixed metaphors 6. no big and abstract words 7. sentence fragments Detailed Learning Para. 15 The phrase has always been used a little pejoratively and even facetiously by the lower classes. 1) pejorative: contemptuous/scornful 2) facetious: joking/mocking The phrase, the Kings English, has always been used contemptuously and jokingly by the lower classes. The working people very often make fun of the proper and formal language of the educated people. Detailed Learning Para. 15 One feels that even Mistress Quickly--a servant--is saying that Dr. Caius--her master--will lose his control and speak with the vigor of ordinary folk. Dr. Caius may lose control of himself and use the strong language (强硬措辞) that ordinary people would use in such occasions. (The language of the ordinary people is more vigorous, direct and straightforward. The educated people would speak euphemistically or in a roundabout way.) Detailed Learning Para. 15 If the Kings English is English as it should be spoken, the claim is often mocked by the underlings, when they say with a jeer English as it should be spoke. The educated people insist that one must use the Kings English, i.e. speak English as it should be spoken. But the working people, members of the so-called lower classes mock and jeer at the people by replying in non-standard English that one should speak “English as it should be spoke.” (The deliberate poor grammar use) Detailed Learning Para. 15 If the Kings English is English as it should be spoken, the claim is often mocked by the underlings, when they say with a jeer English as it should be spoke. 如果说标准英语就是所谓“规范英语”，这种看法常常会受到下层人民的嘲笑讥讽，他们有时故意开玩笑地把它说成是“规反英语”。 Detailed Learning Para. 15 The rebellion against a cultural dominance is still there. There still exists in the working people, as in the early Saxon peasants, a