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1、Everylanguagemayhavevarieties,whichdefinesbyHudsonas“asetoflinguisticitemswithsimilardistribution”.Dialectisoneofthevarietiesoflanguagewhichisbelievedtobeexcludedfrompolitesociety.TothosewhodonotspeaknaturalStandardEnglish,wecanalwaysfindtracesofdialectsintheirspeakingfromwhi
2、chwemayfindouttheiridentities.JustasProfessorHigginshassaidinthemovie,“anEnglishman’swayofspeakingabsolutelyclassifieshim”.2.1RegionalDialectRegionaldialectsare“varietiesofalanguagewhicharespokenindifferentgeographicalareas”.Aregionaldialectdistinguishespeopleofoneregionfromt
3、hoseofanotherregion.Inthemovie,asalinguistHigginscaneasilytellwherethepersonisfrombytheaccenthe/shewears.2.2SocialDialectsJustasregionaldialectsdistinguishpeoplefromoneregiontoanother,sodoesasocialdialectdistinguishpeoplefromoneclassorgrouptoanother.Twopeoplewhoareborninthesa
4、meplacemaynotusethesamevarietyoflanguage.Theirsocialbackgroundcountsalargepartintheirspeakingandcanmakeagreatdifferenceintheiruseoflanguage.AtthetimewhenPygmalionsetsasbackground,theupperclassandthelowerclassspoketotallydifferentlanguages,andmenandwomentalkeddifferentlytoo.Th
5、emoviehaswellreflectedclass-relatedsocialdialectsandgender-relatedsocialvariations.1.Class-relatedsocialdialectsLanguagehasclassestoo.Inthemovie,theupperclassspeaksStandardEnglishwhilethelowerclassspeaksnonstandardEnglishvarieties.Elizacomesfromthelowerclass.Grammaticallyshes
6、ays“he’syourson,ishe?”insteadof“he’syourson,isn’the?”,“Iain’tdone”insteadof“Ihaven’tdone”.Theupperclass,ontheotherhand,evenifsomeofthemmaywearaccent,speakgrammaticallyandphonologicallycorrectly.Differentwaysofspeakingmaygivedifferentimpressionstothehearer.Thelanguageofthelowe
7、rclasssoundsbarbarousandimpolitewhilethelanguageofupperclassimplicatesgraceandpoliteness.Languagesetsasanaturalbarrierbetweentheclasses.ProfessorHigginscondemnsElizaasthemurderofEnglishandproposesthatsheshouldbehangedfornotspeaking“thelanguageofShakespeareandMiltonandtheBible
8、”.Hepredictsthatthegirlwillliveamiserablelifeforthewholelifebecauseo
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