“The English have no respect for their language”: The paradox of the English stereotype in G. B. Shaw’s Pygmalion
The paper discusses several hypostases of the English stereotype as revealed in the verbal behaviour of different characters in G.B. Shaw’s Pygmalion, concentrating especially on the interpersonal verbal encounters between Professor Higgins, Eliza Doolittle and Colonel Pickering and their environmen...
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| Language: | English |
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Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti
2010-01-01
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| Series: | Bucharest Working Papers in Linguistics |
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| Online Access: | http://bwpl.unibuc.ro/index.pl/the_english_have_no_respect_for_their_language_the_paradox_of_the_english_stereotype_in_g._b._shaws_pygmalion |