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Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw's hands, the phoneticist Henry Higgins is the Pygmalion figure who believes he can transform Eliza Doolittle, a cockney flower girl, into a duchess at ease in polite society. The one thing he overlooks is that his 'creation' has a mind of her own. This is the definitive text produced under the editorial supervision of Dan H. Laurence, with an illuminating introduction by Nicholas Grene, discussing the language and politics of the play. Also included in this volume is Shaw's preface, as well as his 'sequel' written for the first publication in 1916, to rebut public demand for a more conventionally romantic ending.

Theatrical science --- English literature --- Shaw, George Bernard --- Social classes --- Speech and social status --- Linguistics teachers --- London (England) --- Teachers

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Many activists worry about the same few problems in their groups: low turnout, inactive members, conflicting views on racism, overtalking, and offensive violations of group norms. But in searching for solutions to these predictable and intractable troubles, progressive social movement groups overlook class culture differences. In Missing Class, Betsy Leondar-Wright uses a class-focused lens to show that members with different class life experiences tend to approach these problems differently. This perspective enables readers to envision new solutions that draw on the strengths of all class cultures to form the basis of stronger cross-class and multiracial movements. The first comprehensive empirical study of US activist class cultures, Missing Class looks at class dynamics in 25 groups that span the gamut of social movement organizations in the United States today, including the labor movement, grassroots community organizing, and groups working on global causes in the anarchist and progressive traditions. Leondar-Wright applies Pierre Bourdieu's theories of cultural capital and habitus to four class trajectories: lifelong working-class and poor; lifelong professional middle class; voluntarily downwardly mobile; and upwardly mobile. Compellingly written for both activists and social scientists, this book describes class differences in paths to activism, attitudes toward leadership, methods of conflict resolution, ways of using language, diversity practices, use of humor, methods of recruiting, and group process preferences. Too often, we miss class. Missing Class makes a persuasive case that seeing class culture differences could enable activists to strengthen their own groups and build more durable cross-class alliances for social justice.

Intercultural communication --- Class consciousness --- Speech and social status --- Social movements --- Social classes --- Consciousness --- Social perception --- Social classes and language --- Social classes and speech --- Social status and language --- Social status and speech --- Speech and social classes --- Social status

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Paris mushroomed in the thirteenth century to become the largest city in the Western world, largely through in-migration from rural areas. The resulting dialect-mixture led to the formation of new, specifically urban modes of speech. From the time of the Renaissance social stratification became sharper as the elites distanced themselves from the Parisian 'Cockney' of the masses. Nineteenth-century urbanisation transformed the situation yet again with the arrival of huge numbers of immigrants from far-flung corners of France, levelling dialect-differences and exposing ever larger sections of the population to standardising influences. At the same time, a working-class vernacular emerged which was distinguished from the upper-class standard not only in grammar and pronunciation but most markedly in vocabulary (slang). This book examines the interlinked history of Parisian speech and the Parisian population through these various phases of in-migration, dialect-mixing and social stratification from medieval times to the present day.

804.0-087 --- French language --- -French language --- -Speech and social status --- -Social classes and language --- Social classes and speech --- Social status and language --- Social status and speech --- Speech and social classes --- Social status --- Langue d'oïl --- Romance languages --- 804.0-087 Frans: dialecten --- Frans: dialecten --- Social aspects --- -Dialects --- -Variation --- -Paris (France) --- -Social life and customs --- -804.0-087 Frans: dialecten --- Social classes and language --- Langage et statut social --- -Frans: dialecten --- Speech and social status --- Dialects --- Variation --- Paris (France) --- Social life and customs. --- Sociolinguistics --- Dialectology --- Paris --- Français (Langue) --- Aspect social --- Dialectes --- Moeurs et coutumes --- France --- Arts and Humanities --- Language & Linguistics --- French language - Social aspects - France - Paris --- French language - Dialects - France - Paris --- French language - Variation - France - Paris --- Speech and social status - France - Paris --- Paris (France) - Social life and customs

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Hauptbeschreibung Ein Personenname kennzeichnet den einzelnen Menschen und gibt ihm eine ureigene Individualität. Hierbei ist wiederum der Ruf- bzw. Vorname von großer Bedeutung, da er von den Eltern frei wählbar ist. Die Rufnamenwahl als gedanklicher Prozess unterliegt jedoch verschiedenen Kriterien, welche die Entscheidung für oder gegen einen Namen beeinflussen. Jede Namenwahl drückt die Einstellung eines Namengebers aus, die durch gesellschaftliche Einflüsse mehr oder weniger stark gelenkt wird. Vor allem das direkte soziale Umfeld bestimmt, welche Kriterien für die Rufnamen

Names, Personal --- Speech and social status. --- Social classes and language --- Social classes and speech --- Social status and language --- Social status and speech --- Speech and social classes --- Social status --- Anthroponomy --- Baby names --- Christian names --- Family names --- Forenames --- Names of families --- Names of persons --- Personal names --- Surnames --- Names --- Onomastics --- Social aspects --- Social aspects.

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This monograph is about how the Scots language is discursively constructed, both from 'above' (through texts such as educational policies, debates in parliament and official websites) and from 'below' (in focus group discussions among Scottish people). It uses the interdisciplinary discourse-historical approach to critical discourse analysis to examine what discursive strategies are used in different texts, and also to investigate salient features of context. This allows a broader discussion of the role of this language in Scotland, and how different ways of constructing a language can percolate

Scots language --- Speech and social status --- Language and culture --- National characteristics --- Characteristics, National --- Identity, National --- Images, National --- National identity --- National images --- National psychology --- Psychology, National --- Anthropology --- Nationalism --- Social psychology --- Collective memory --- Ethnopsychology --- Exceptionalism --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Social classes and language --- Social classes and speech --- Social status and language --- Social status and speech --- Speech and social classes --- Social status --- English language, Scots --- Lallans language --- Lowland Scots language --- Scots English language --- Scottish language (Germanic) --- English language --- Germanic languages --- Discourse analysis. --- Dialects