The film "My Fair Lady" is completely different from that of "Arrival". Advent tells that the future is science fiction. It integrates a lot of science and technology, and My Fair Lady brings us back to about a hundred years ago. In British society, the story will be told slowly in the real social background. With this film, I opened the door to sociolinguistics in linguistics. The first question we think about is what is society. Through the film, I think that society is a structure in which people in a specific environment maintain interdependence for a long time. A group of people living together includes different social class status. For example, in the film, there are members of the royal family, nobles and gentry, ordinary people The social stratification of citizens and people at the bottom. There are certain relationships between different individuals of human beings, and these different relationships combine to form a collective, which is social relationship. As a classic case movie for analyzing sociolinguistics, the most interesting thing is to understand the relationship between language and society, and how they affect each other respectively. First, the influence of society on language. Society has a great guiding role in language, and society will affect the development of language. In the past, present and future, different backgrounds and social environments will affect language. Society will affect people's evaluation of language. From about the 9th minute in the film, Professor Higgins is a linguist in the upper class. Professor Higgins used a song to express his dissatisfaction with the British who did not speak English well, in which he mentioned the United States, France, Hebrew, Arabia, where people spoke their native language, while many British People with Scottish and Irish accents make people sneer and lower their social image. Society also affects how people use language, including gender differences, age differences, class differences, occupational differences, and more. Through a person's language, we can learn about his social environment, social class status, education level, and occupation. For example, from the 8th minute of the movie, Professor Higgins can deduce where a person is from through his language, and the minimum range can be as far as six miles. In "My Fair Lady", people use English. Professor Higgins distinguishes people's class status by distinguishing people's accents and listening to whether he is standard and pure English. For example, the language of the heroine Eliza has many The accent of the lower class people, like the difference between the pronunciation of ei and ai, the pronunciation of h or not, the use of modal particles, the language expression of babbling and swearing from time to time. When the professor took Eliza to the racecourse for the first time in the movie, although she had already received certain teachings, she blurted out that done her in immediately made the famous family around him realize that this girl was out of place and that she did not belong to this class. In the second half of the movie, the language Eliza used to attend the dance was very pure English, so no one would have thought that she was actually a lowly flower girl, thinking that she was from the upper class, or even a princess. This shows that a person's language can fully reflect his sociality, that is, society has a great effect on a person's language. Then, language also has an extraordinary impact on society. Language is one of the markers of national identity, such as some religions and customs. Language has a great relationship with group identity. For example, Eliza, whose language is vulgar in the movie, can only mix in the bottom society, and can't even enter the flower shop. After she becomes a lady, people think that she should live in the upper class and even The nobles of the palace, she returned to the bottom society where she was born and raised, and she could not integrate back. Language also plays a role in personality traits. Eliza before her education was careless and babbled. After studying with Professor Higgins, she was soft-spoken and elegant. Eliza originally came to study with Professor Higgins in order to be able to work in a flower shop instead of being a flower girl on the street, but the flower shop asked her to use elegant language, and Professor Higgins promised to teach her how to I hope to transform a lower-class girl into a lady who can have a better future and even major life events in the upper class. In 11 minutes of the movie, Professor Higgins also said to the colonel that if you used her (Elysa) language, you would be a flower girl too. Explain that learning a language well can change an individual's social occupation and even social class. At about 1 hour and 12 minutes in the film, Professor Higgins said that when she encouraged Eliza to keep practicing, she said that learning English well can improve her whole person's ideological level and gain the recognition of the upper class. So here also leads to the social use of linguistic knowledge. Language can shape the image, and the workplace image, gender image, and class image in our daily life can be changed through language learning. Language is also a communication guide, such as marriage mediation, political campaigning and the language we are experiencing as a language student educate. To sum up, the biggest experience that this film brought me is to understand the interaction between language and society, to understand the impact of language on every moment of my life. The structure of language contains rich social and cultural information, and we use today's language according to certain social rules and constraints. Many aspects of a person can be easily changed, such as body and appearance, but the change of language is not simple, but learning a language well can shape a person's social identity and gain group recognition through language. To sum up, the biggest experience that this film brought me is to understand the interaction between language and society, to understand the impact of language on every moment of my life. The structure of language contains rich social and cultural information, and we use today's language according to certain social rules and constraints. Many aspects of a person can be easily changed, such as body and appearance, but the change of language is not simple, but learning a language well can shape a person's social identity and gain group recognition through language.
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