3.3 Cockney English外国文学名著导读.pdf

Chapter Three 3.3 Cockney English Cockney English The variety spoken by the ‘lower’ working class in London Originally the speech of all Londoners, but came to be stigmatised as ‘lower’ class speech (cf. My Fair Lady) Exhibits its own phonological, lexical and grammatical features Consonants Exercise: firty fahsn, bovver, muvver thirty thousand, bother, mother Consonants Exercise: Nobody lives in them ouses now. Key: Nobody lives in these houses now. Feature : The initial h is often not pronounced. Consonants Exercise : a bi’ of lu’ Key: a bit of luck Feature : When /t/, /kt/, /k/ occur in word-middle or final positions, they are often pronounced as a glottal stop /ʔ/. My Analysis: “the least of effort” Vowels /i :/ /əɪ/ beat seat /eɪ/ /aɪ/ fate great /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/ high why “L-vocalization” Word final /l/ often becomes a vowel sound. “tell him” /’teɰwim/ Practice Can you read the following sentence in Cockney English? The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain. Vocabulary From Romany: chavvy (kid), mush (伙伴), to put the mockers on (使倒霉) From Yiddish: gezumph (诈骗), schemozzle (打扰) From Arabic : ackers (钱), bint (姑娘), cushy (软, 容易) From Indian dialect: dekko (瞧) Vocabulary aggro (aggravation=aggression) Gawdelpus (God help us) Geddoudovit (Get out of it) Blimey (God blind me) Gordon Bennet (God) Syntactic Features (1) Double negation is common. (2) There is no distinction between past tense and past participle. (3) Tag questions are p