英语写作 diction.pptx

English Writing;;Contents;1. Levels of words;I. Levels of words;;Exercise; There is nothing new in the recognition, within a given language, of a distinction between common usage and uses of the language for more restricted purposes and often enough, perhaps characteristically, more elevated purposes. The monolithic(庞大的) nature of English is not questioned when literary essayists like Emerson contrast poetry and common speech. The latter is recognized in America to be the proper subject for the investigation of linguists who, however, now show some incipient (初始的) inclination to investigate poetry, too, and other noncasual utterances in a given language. - C. F. Voegelin ;three sentences: long and involved formal or learned words: recognition, characteristically, elevated, monolithic, investigation, incipient, inclination, noncasual, and utterances Long sentences and formal words are appropriate here because the paper, which discusses a rather complex question, needs them to be theoretically clear and exact. Most of the words—common words ; When I was a kid, and reading every science fiction book in the local library, I used to wonder exactly how the future would happen. By that I dont mean what the future would be like—science fiction already told me that—but rather how wed actually get there. Science fiction books seemed to agree, for example, that in the future there would be no money—all transactions would be made via identity cards and centralized computers. But that seemed dubious to me: how, I wondered, are you going to get everybody to give up money in the first place? - Michael Rogers ; In this paragraph, except one or two words that are very colloquial, like “kid”, and one or two that are a little formal, like “transactions” and “dubious”, all the words are commonly used words. The sentences are much shorter and simpler than those in the preceding paragraph. Such vocabulary and sentence structure fit the content of the paragraph, as it describes t