Lesson Three Pub Talk and the King’s English Background Information Henry Fairlie: he was born in London, came to the . in the mid-1960s, working for The New Republic. He is known as a feisty 活跃的chronicler年代纂辑 of . politics and moes. He died at the age of 66, after a stroke and heart attack. Pub: also known as the public house, is a center of social life for a large number of people (esp. men) in Britain. Pubs, besides offering a wide variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks and providing hot and cold food, serve as places for meeting friends and for entertainment. Many have, for instance, television sets, amusement machines and juke-boxes and provide facilities for playing darts, billiards, dominoes and similar games. Some also employ musicians for evening entertainment, such as piano playing, folk singing and modern jazz. Metaphor from a cognitive linguistic point of view Metaphors, according to the cognitive linguists, are something more than rhetorical device or phenomenon; they reflect people’s way of thinking about things. Throughout their book Metaphors We Live By, Lakoff and Johnson repeatedly remind us that metaphor is a basic means of human cognition of the real world, a way of thinking, a mode of knowing the world and a manner of conceptualizing the experiences. A popular belief of the cognitive linguistics is that metaphor is the process of the ma
