从语言学角度分析My dair lady

Sociolinguistic Analysis of My Fair Lady

[ Abstract]

My Fair Lady is a movie about how a poor flower girl turns to a lady by

simply changing her language at the help of a linguist. It demonstrates in a dramatic way the importance of language as a social identity of a person and the influence a language exerts on a person’s experience. This paper tries to explain some phenomena in the movie in a sociolinguistics view, focusing on variations of language caused by gender difference and class difference. The paper hopes to help the reader to know better the charm of language through the analysis and to have a profound understanding of the film.

窈窕淑女社会语言学分析

[摘要]

窈窕淑女是一部讲述一个贫穷的卖花女如何变成一位女士通过

简单地改变她的语言在语言学家的帮助。它演示了一个戏剧性的方式语言的重要性作为一个人，影响一个语言上施加一个人的经验的社会认同。本文试图解释在电影中一些现象的社会语言学的观点，注重语言所造成的性别差异和阶级差别的变化。本文希望能帮助读者通过分析来更好地了解语言的魅力，并有电影的深刻认识。

[ Key words] sociolinguistic; gender difference; class - related variation[关键词]社会语言学;性别差异;类- 相关变化

I. Introduction

Sociolinguistic is“the study of language in relation to society”. It is believed that language is an essential part in our lives because it is“a very structured set of symbols”by which we can identify ourselves in the world. Just as it is impossible for two pop let to have identical experiences, so the language of two pop let will never be the same. A person’s language is closely related to his/her social background and viceversa, his/her experience will to a large extent be determined by the language he / she speaks. The movie My Fair Lady is a good illustration. My Fair Lady is a movie about how a poor flower girl named Eliza changes her life by changing her language at the help of a famous linguist Professor Higgins. Eliza is a lower - class flower girl selling flowers on the streets who speaks“terrible English”. Higgins boasts to his friend Pickering that he could turn this girl into a real lady in six months simply by teaching her standard English. Eliza also wants to become genteel so that she could find a job in a flower shop, therefore she goes to Higgins for help. The game begins and after two months Eliza successfully turns into a lady, dancing in the Embassy Ball with Transylvanian prince and everyone thinks her is a princess. This paper tries to analyze the movie from a sociolinguistic angle, mainly focusing on language difference caused by social class and gender difference.

社会语言学是“语言的有关社会研究”。据认为，语言是我们生活中必不可少的一部分，因为它是“一个非常结构化的符号集”，其中我们可以找出自己在世界上。只是因为它是不可能的两个弹出让有相同的经历，所以两个流行让利的语言将永远是相同的。一个人的语言是密切相关的他/她的社会背景，反之亦然，他/她的经验将在很大程度上是由他/她会说的语言决定。电影窈窕淑女是一个很