My Fair Lady is one of the most famous musical movies in the world and for years, many people are obsessed with this movie.This paper will analyze the language use of two short excerpts in this movie from a sociolingu...My Fair Lady is one of the most famous musical movies in the world and for years, many people are obsessed with this movie.This paper will analyze the language use of two short excerpts in this movie from a sociolinguistic perspective. Some key sociolinguisticconcepts concerning conversations, such as standard/non-standard English, class, politeness and taboo, gender and phatic communication are to be explored and used in the analysis.展开更多
文摘My Fair Lady is one of the most famous musical movies in the world and for years, many people are obsessed with this movie.This paper will analyze the language use of two short excerpts in this movie from a sociolinguistic perspective. Some key sociolinguisticconcepts concerning conversations, such as standard/non-standard English, class, politeness and taboo, gender and phatic communication are to be explored and used in the analysis.
