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It is widely known that anyEnglish conversation begins with The Weather. Such a fixation with the weather finds expression inDr.Johnson’s famous comment that “When twoEnglish meet, their first talk is of weather.” Though Johnson’s observation is as accurate now as it was over two hundred years ago, most commentators fail to come up with a convincing explanation for thisEnglish weather-speak. BillBryson, for ezample, concludes that,as theEnglish weather is not at all exciting,the obsession with it can hardly be understooD、He argues that”To an outsider,the most striking thing about theEnglish weather is that there is not very much of it.” Simply, the reason is that the unusual and unpredictable weather is almost unknown in theBritish Isles.Jeremy Paxman, however, disagrees withBryson, arguing that theEnglish weather is by nature attractive.Bryson is wrong, he says,because theEnglish preference for the weather has nothing to do with the natural phenomen
A、”The interest is less in the phenomena themselves, but in uncertainty.”According to him, the weather inEngland is very changeable and uncertain and it attracts theEnglish as well as the outsider. Bryson and Paxman stand for common misconceptions about the weather-speak among theEnglish.Both commentators, somehow, are missing the point. TheEnglish weather conversation is not really about the weather at all.English weather-speak is a system of signs ,which is developed to help the speakers overcome the natural reserve and actually talk to each other.Everyone knows conversations starting with weather-speak are not requests for weather dat
A、Rather, they are routine greetings,conversation starters or the blank”fillers”, In other words,English weather-speak is a means of social bonding. What is the author’s main purpose of writing the passage
A、To explain whatEnglish weather-speak is about.
B.To analyse misconceptions about theEnglish weather.
C.To find fault with bothBillBryson and Jeremy Paxman.
D.To convince people that theEnglish weather is changeable.
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