Using American English In "da Vinci Code"

[FredYang]

Hey everyone, I'm working with my thesis about English language and need some information about: How they apply American English in "Da Vinci code"? Please make some examples for me, thank you.)

[factor-fiction]

Have you read it? It's widely available in libraries and bookshops or via download.

[sandyRoe]

I haven't read it and I'm not missing much, by all accounts. As you're working on a thesis you could read it and find your own examples.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh come on FF it may be because he had read it and can't identify the differences.

Would you like to talk about Bei-jing particularities in Mandarin ?
Or the use of French Canadian in Metropolitan French - the thing the Yanks call puh-reeshan ?

I can just do Qenawi differences in Egyptian Arabic but I would nt like to commit myself a lot of the time.

Good luck Freddy - No I can't I couldnt read the book.

[coccinelle]

Fred, are you american?
I can't remember the davinci code as i read it a while ago but have just finished Inferno and words like 'sidewalk' 'elevator' 'pants' come to mind. I'd have to go through the complete book to see what those words were.

[woofgang]

Fred if you are working ?with your thesis about English language, shouldn't you be doing the work yourself?

[jim360]

What level of thesis is this? If it's any sort of University-level thesis then by now you ought to know how to do this work yourself. And if it's a lower-level thesis (whatever those are) then it's a good opportunity to learn how to do this sort of work for yourself. Good luck.

[FredYang]

Thank you guys, u r absolutely right. But I am a English learner and its really difficult for me to identify the differences...Well, I am trying

[coccinelle]

Here's a list of differences but no doubt not all were in the da vinci code!

http://www.englishclub.com/vocabulary/british-american.htm

[emmie]

a truly dire book.

[FredYang]

Thank you so much Coccinelle, I will check them all)

[factor-fiction]

I was actually hooked on the DaVinci code book, but was disappointed by the film and had to admit it made the story seem silly. I also enjoyed reading Angels and Demons.
But I read a couple more after that and didn't enjoy them at all- they seemed too far-fetched.

Anyway, turning to a couple of pages at random I spotted the following to start you off:

page 33 SEDAN is used. I'm not sure of the English equivalent- 'large car' maybe

page 37 CELL PHONE. I've noticed all American books use cell phone where we would say 'mobile phone'.

[FredYang]

Thank you factor-fiction, they r helpful!

[boxtops]

All the examples mentioned above are useful - you might add that, no doubt, the American terms are used to make the books more marketable in the States, where they find some of our terminology quaint.

[Octavius]

Some help here.

http://www.uab.ro/cercetare/ciel/jolie/JoLIE%202011/pdfs/11.selmani_orges.pdf

[coccinelle]

It might also be due to the fact that Dan Brown is american!

[boxtops]

Coccinelle, it could, but if a book is aimed only at the English market, the Americanisms would have been proof-read out.