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