“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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Main Author: Zsuzsanna Ajtony
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Editura Universitatii din Bucuresti 2010-01-01
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