Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Language of My Fair Lady开题报告

 2022-08-10 15:07:14

1. 研究目的与意义

Language is used to exchange information and interpersonal communication. It#8217;s also a symbol of social identity. Language is influenced by many factors, especially social factors. Social factors involved in the use of language are region, dialect, register, social class, and gender, etc. The analysis of those factors can make human-being learn language easier, use language more accurate, catch more useful information from communication. The well-known movie My Fair Lady is a rich source of language. It#8217;s about how a lower class flower girl named Eliza is turned into an elegant lady by changing her language with the help of Professor Henry Higgins, a famous phonetics and linguistics expert. It demonstrates the great influence that language exerts on one#8217;s experience. From sociolinguistic perspective, this paper aims to analyze the language in My Fair Lady and reveals the impact of social factors on language and the relationship between language and social identity of its speakers. This paper may help people better know the charm of language and have a better understanding of the movie.

2. 研究内容和预期目标

This paper will primarily analyze the language in the classical film My Fair Lady from a sociolinguistic perspective, focusing on how social factors influence language and how language contributes to the construction and reconstruction of one#8217;s social identity. It reveals the relationship between the linguistic variables of the regional and social dialect, registers, social class and gender difference of its speakers.

3. 国内外研究现状

The movie My Fair Lady, adapted from George Bernard Shaw#8217;s classic five-act play, Pygmalion, is about how a poor flower girl becomes a graceful lady by changing her language with the help of a linguist. In a dramatic way, the movie demonstrates the importance of language as a symbol of social identity and the great influence language on a person#8217;s fate. Since it was released in 1964, the movie has been well received by the public. For many years, many scholars have constantly analyzed this classic from mainly three points of view: teaching, translation and film literature. But few scholars analyze the movie from sociolinguistic perspective.

Alan Jay Lerner, the playwright of My Fair Lady, wrote his personal opinion about the movie in his book-The Street Where I Live (1978). There are also other study about the language in My Fair Lady, such as The Making of My Fair Lady(1998) written by Keith Garebian and Loverly: The Life and Times of My Fair Lady (2012) written by Dominic McHugh.

My Fair Lady is one of the earliest western musical movies in China. There are some scholars studying on this movie. And some scholars had finished their paper based on this movie, such as Deng Hailong, Yu Min, Luo Min, and Lin Wei, etc. Although similar studies already exist, this paper is still necessary and different.

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4. 计划与进度安排

1. Introduction

2. Social Factors in My Fair Lady

2.1 Dialect

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5. 参考文献

[1] Hudson R. A. Sociolinguistics[M]. Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, 2000.

[2] Lerner, Alan Jay . My Fair Lady Script[CL]. http://www.docin.com/p-111404566.html. 2011.

[3] Lin, Wei. Language and Social Identity[J]. Chinese Translators Journal, 2012, 33(06):120.

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