The Influence of Social Class on Language Variation. (the Case of Pygmalion)

b. This style is appropriate in the early stages of a relationship, when you don’t want to

Consensus ( a form of group agreement for a decision) is used to make many decisions, such as regulations and guidelines. Individuals may become accustomed to and trust decision made by a group. Depending on the person who is delivering the message impacts gaining acceptance. Some people find security

The researchers test the hypothesis by testing the effects of using books as a means for an individual to encourage modesty. The researchers test their hypothesis by using 59 individuals who were chosen at random and others were in a controlled situation. The individuals were split up into two groups. Individuals who were placed in a random situation that encourage humility have shown a developing number of changes than those that were placed in the controlled environment. Researchers also notice a change in the individual’s ability to forgive and tolerance. They were negative attitude observed, which was not observed in the individuals who were in the controlled environment. In conclusion, it is shown that individuals who were in a controlled situation are observed to make changes in their lives. The individuals who were not in a controlled environment did not show any changes to their

• To manage a disagreement there can be no winners or losers as the resolution must benefit all sides.

Language is a very important and significant part of individuals’ life. It is considered as one of the best device of social behavior. Language is a means with the help of which people communicate and send a social message to one another. But language does have very special characteristics according to which it changes and very depending on many factors. According to the researchers there are no two people who speak identically. Their languages vary as per their geographic location, age, gender, ethnicity, social background etc. many a time, it is observed that even the members from same family speak differently due to differences in their location ( Biber & Conrad, 2014). For example, in my neighborhood, there is a difference in the ways of

"They just want to be heard," Manchin said. "You don't have to agree, but you have to agree to be respectful. I think everybody was."

All three authors realize the fact that language has changed and differently develop their main idea based on it. MacNeil argues that rapid social changes, such as immigration and war, have altered English (MacNeil 308). For example, even though people have a tendency

“A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires” -Marcus Aurelius.

However, it can be argued with (Bruner 1964) that social interaction doesn’t explain all the complexities of language acquisition. Almost every day the language we hear is often incorrect, poorly defined, incomplete and full of hesitations, mispronunciations and other errors, and yet despite this we still learn to talk following the correct grammatical rules. Again this indicates the idea of Chomsky’s (1968) LAD model that children are born ‘hard-wired’ with the innate knowledge of linguistic rules and so these rules help the baby make estimations and presumptions about the language it is hearing. From these estimations and presumption the child can work out grammatical sets of rules and when more language is exposed to them, the more their language develops. Even within Chomsky’s (1968) LAD theory, undoubtedly he believed the role and promotion of the ‘nature’ aspect is the core foundation on which language can develop. But his theory also requires the role of nurture

It is interesting to see how language takes on a different position in various places; in fact, language can be a determining factor to various options matters, such as whether or not someone receives a job or whether or not someone is discriminated against. In Mother Tongue by Amy Tan, Tan shares her experience with language and argues that people are influenced more by their family then they are by peers when it comes to language. However, Tan has lost sight of the wide variety of factors that influence how a person speaks, as in language is influenced by much more than peers and family.

Furthermore, there is the communication. This can relate to intellectual humility being that one should not speak out on

Talking about “dialects”, a term often mentioned along is “standard language”. When being brought into comparison with “dialect”, “standard language” usually serves as a legitimate variant with the highest level of excellence (Bex & Watts, 1999). Though positive in nature, standardization - the procedure of standardizing a language – often raises heated controversy because of its consequences on not only linguistics field but also the society. In the second part of the essay, I will focus on the disadvantages of language standardization.

“Pygmalion was written to challenge the class system, traditional stereotypes and the audience’s own views.”

This term paper aims at reviewing various stages of language development in human being early life in regards to language development. The paper also analyzes various theoretical issues and hypothesis that contributes to change of speech and how human beings corporate the changes in their daily development as far as language is concerned. Adult language and child language are quite different especially because adults have more exposure to the society norms than the children. It will also take in to consideration various processes of learning, how children acquire linguistic inputs such as forms meanings and word use during their talking processes. This term paper will focus on the child development in terms of language and gender. It is a paper on how children under the age of 10, learn language adaptation to their first language during their early developmental stages. It will identify theories for learning of a language, childhood development as well as look into the societal norms of gender socialization.

The myth of Pygmalion has been told for centuries and has been transformed into different types of forms but it has always stayed true to the original. That being the notion of a sculptor falling in love with his sculpture and wanting it to come to life is timeless, as we see in the children’s story, Cinderella, or movies, such as Pretty Woman. Each of these including the play Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw can be interpreted in many ways but one of the most common ways is in a romantic way and a realistic way.This is because overall Romantics see this as a play of two lovers while the realist sees it differently.