高级英语PubTalkandtheKing的简要介绍.docxVIP

The Summary of Pub Talk and the Kin’sg English The articldeescribesthe conversationis the most sociableof all human activitieasnd itis an activitoynly of humans. The charm of conversation is that it’tdoreesanlly start from anywhere, and no one has any idea where it will go. Conversation is not for making a point. There no winning in conversation. Bar conversatiohnas itsspecialcharm. Bar friendsare not deeply involved in each other’s lives,but they can have any kinds of conversationfreely.One nightin the bar,when the authorand his companions have a conversation desultorily here and there, one of them says that the K’sinEgnglish is laid down as English is a term of criticism, which becomes a focus between them and becomes a focal subject. There would be resistance in the lower classes to any attempt by an upper clas to lay down rulesfor “English as itshould be spoken.”There are language barriers between the Saxon churls and their Norman conquerors and there is a deep class rift in the culture of England after the Norma Conquest.By buildingtheirFrench againstthe Saxon peasant’s own language,the new rulingclasshas builta culturablarrieragainsthim. King’s English comes into use in tthhceen1t6ury, and after five centuries of growth, of tussling with the French and absorbing it, English has com into their own and become a universal language in England. Words are not themselvesa realityb,ut only representatioonfs it,and the King’s English is a class representation of reali’tsy.EnTghleisKhinigs a model, but itshouldn’t be an ultimatum.In fact,even the most educatedand literatpeeople do not use Standard English all the time in their conversation. The bother about teaching chimpanzees how to talk is that they will probably try to talk sense and so ruin conversion.