从社会语言学角度探究《茶花女》.doc

从社会语言学角度探究《茶花女》 　　Abstract：Sociolinguistic is aimed to study the relationship between a language and society. Social factors have much influence on peoples language. The identical experience makes people adopted in a speech community acquire the varieties of language. The famous movie―My Fair Lady tells a story about how a poor flower girl turns to a lady by simply changing her language at the help of a linguist, which is a good demonstration to this point. In this paper, the film will be analyzed from a sociolinguistics view, focusing on variations of language caused by gender difference and class difference.? Key words：sociolinguistics；language variation；class-related dialect 1　Introduction? My Fair Lady is a world-famous movie adapted from the play Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw. It illustrates in a dramatic way that the change of language can make a lower-class flower girl named Eliza who speaks “terrible English” turn into an elegant lady who can speak standard English. This paper tries to analyze the dialogues in this movie from an angle of sociolinguistics. It hopes to reveal the linguistic value in this classic movie.? 2　Geographical variation? Dialect is regarded as a geographical variety of a language, spoken in a certain area. In English-spoken countries, English has many varieties such as British English, American English, African English, Indian English and so on. Standard English is recognized as standard language which means a variety that in different ways is more correct and acceptable than other varieties. So, regional dialect can distinguish people of one region from another region.? In this movie, linguist Higgins can easily tell where the person is form by the accent he/she wears. He knows Eliza is from the far eastern part of Britain and Charlie Eliza? father may have a Welsh mother from their speaking. Not only could he tell which part of Britain a person is from but also he could roughly tell which block a person lives if he/she