In fact the term is commonly used to denote people who come from a wider area of the innermost eastern suburbs of London and also an adjoining area south of the Thames. `Cockney' is also used to describe a strong London accent and it is associated with working-class origins. A feature of Cockney speech is rhyming slang : `wife' is referred to as `trouble and strife' and `stairs' as `apples and pears'. 6. Explain the following notions: snobbery, inverted snobbery, posh and being posh, blue/ white collar workers, underclass, social mobility. inverted snobbery middle-class people try to adopt working-class values and habits. posh of a class higher than the one I belong to; being posh being pretentious 7. In the early years of the twentieth century, the playwright and social commentator George Bernard Shaw remarked that an Englishman only had to open his mouth to make some other Englishman despise him. What was he talking about
spices), hakh (a spinach-like leaf), rista-gushtaba (minced meat balls in tomato and curd curry), danival korme, and the signature rice which is particular to Asian cultures. The traditional wazwan feast involves cooking meat or vegetables, usually mutton, in several different ways. Alcohol is strictly prohibited in most places. There are two styles of making tea in the region: Noon Chai, or salt tea, which is pink in colour (known as chinen posh rang or peach flower colour) and popular with locals; and kahwah, a tea for festive occasions, made with saffron and spices (cardamom, cinamon, sugar, noon chai leaves), and black tea. History of tourism in Kashmir The state of Jammu & Kashmir is a region of widely varying people and geography. In the south, Jammu is a transition zone from the Indian plains to the Himalayas. Nature has lavishly endowed
in three ways: Intralingual-(within)- Eng-Eng/Fin-Fin/Est-Est Interlingual-(between)- Est-Eng/Rus-Ger Intersemiotic-(between)- Sound-Words/Words-Sound. F.e.-in movies *phone ringing* Problems: Dialects/Regional varieties- When translating: Mainstream Eng. vs Jamaican Eng., then you could translate MS Eng to MS Est, and Jamaican Eng into a language variety with a similar (social) role. Social class- RP-received pronunciation-(aka posh lang.) When translating: RP vs lower class Eng, then you could translate RP using complicated words, and lower class Eng, using limited vocabulary. • Hatim and Munday – what is translation according to these two men? Why is this not quite enough nowadays? 1.Process of transferring written text from SL to TL(done by a translator) 2.The written product of the process in No.1 3.Mental, social, linguistic etc phenomenon related to the written product in No.2
smaller restaurants in that city's Bo-Kaap, in Khayelitsha and Langa. Or one can watch for glimmers of the real thing. There are varieties of biltong in every café, in big cities and little dorps. Every weekend there wafts from neighbourhoods rich and poor the smell of spicy sosaties being grilled over the braai. Steak houses may specialise in flame-grilled aged sirloin, but they also offer boerewors. And sometimes, in posh restaurants, there is the occasional fusion dish - not the common merger of east and west, but north and south: marinated ostrich carpaccio at Sage in Pretoria, oxtail ravioli with saffron cream sauce at Bartholomeus Klip in Hermon on the Cape west coast, even Tandoori crocodile at the Pavilion in the Marine hotel in Hermanus. There is crocodile on the menu and kudu, impala, even warthog at a number of restaurants that offer game. But there won't be seagull, mercifully, or penguin. Both
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English was imposed for trade purposes, educational purposes, law & government. It co-existed as a 2nd language along the native tongue. The dialects spoken on the British Isles include: · English-English · Southern English dialect, spoken in the south · West Country Dialect, spoken in the west · Midland English dialect, spoken in the midland counties · Northern English dialects, spoken in the north RPs: · Public school English · King's English · Queen's English · Posh 4) English English, RP, Estuary English 1. English English - the English language as spoken in England. British Standard English grammar and vocabulary (used by many) together with the RP accent (used only in England) should be called English English. 2. RP - Accent which is normally taught to students who are studying EngEng. Used natively by only 3-5% of the population of England. RP has a large number of diphthongs and not a particularly close relationship to English orthography
she likes the same kinds of things 6 evolve 13 non-native clothes to cheer myself up. as I do. We also share a liking for the 7 disappeared 5 My father was offered a job in same kinds of food, like olives and New York but after thinking it strawberries, and neither of us can 2 A honeymoon B salary C posh over he decided not to go for it. Photocopiable © Oxford University Press 1 Maturita Solutions Advanced Workbook Key 4 1 let me down Leo Well, in some parts of Africa and 2 been thrown away Asia there are thousands of people