高级英语-PubTalkandtheKing的简要介绍

The Summaryof PubTalk and the Kings EnglishThe articledescribes theconversation isthe mostsociable ofall humanactivitiesand itis anactivity onlyof humans.The charmof conversationisthat itdoesnt reallystart fromanywhere,and noone hasany ideawhere itwillgo.Conversation isnot formaking apoint.There isno winninginconversation.Bar conversationhas itsspecial charm.Bar friendsare notdeeplyinvolved ineach otherslives,but theycan haveany kindsof conversationfreely.One nightin thebar,when theauthor andhis companionshave aconversationdesultorily hereand there,one ofthem saysthat theKingsEnglish islaid downas English is aterm ofcriticism,which becomes a focusbetween them andbecomesafocal subject.There wouldbe resistancein thelowerclasses toany attemptby anupper classto laydown rulesfor Englishasit shouldbe spoken5There arelanguage barriersbetweentheSaxonchurls andtheir Normanconquerors andthere isa deepclass riftin thecultureof England after theNorman Conquest.By buildingtheir Frenchagainst theSaxonpeasants ownlanguage,the newruling classhas builta culturalbarrieragainst him.KingsEnglishcomes intouse inthe16th century,andafterfivecenturies ofgrowth,of tusslingwith theFrench andabsorbing it,English hascomeinto theirown andbecome auniversal languagein England.Words arenotthemselves areality,but onlyrepresentations ofit,andtheKingsEnglish isa classrepresentation ofreality.The KingsEnglishisa model,butit shouldntbe anultimatum.In fact,even themost educatedand literatepeopledo notuse StandardEnglish allthe timein theirconversation.Thebother aboutteaching chimpanzeeshow totalk isthat theywill probablytryto talksense andso ruinconversion.。