Anglosaská filmová tvorba

26 March: Crying Game

Accents spoken in the film: 

Irish 
•Features:  
- Vowels:

 /eɪ/ → /e:/, /ε:/      

 /ʌ/ closer to /ə/

 /aɪ/ → /əɪ/, /eɪ/

 /aʊ/ → /əʊ/

- rhotic: /r/ = flap/tap 
- intonation: use of rises for both questions and statements/commands; the rises are abrupt, the falls go to mid-level only

Cockney
- /θ/ → /f, t/ 
- H-dropping
- "have a cuppa" 

Use of English: 

1 defin.: trying to persuade sb that sth is true (usually for a joke)

"have sb on"

2 Fergus was “no pin-up”. This means  he wasn’t __

handsome

3 “As sure as night follows __”

day

4 defin.: to appeal to sb for kindness when given a punishment

      “to plead for __” 

clemency