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Library's collection Library's IT development CancelThis thesis is the study of Eliza Doolittle's language
development in five acts of George Bernard Shaw's
play Pygmalion. Margery Morgan in her notes of Pygmalion
(1980:61) mentions that Eliza, who comes from a lower
class society, becomes a lady through the acquirements
of a new way of speaking, new manners, and a new style
of behavior. In this study, the writer focuses on the
acquirement of Eliza's new way of speaking only. In this
case, she tries to analyze the development of Eliza's
language through the forms of nonstandard grammatical
features and sentence structures.
In order to identify the data, the writer needs
some thories relating to the study itself. They are the
varieties of English, standard and nonstandard English
grammar, sentences, and sentence structures.
The data classification of the five acts are divided
into three sections; complete-incomplete sentences,
standard-nonstandard English, and sentence structures.
By analyzing the quantitative data, the writer
tries to infer the qualitative interpretation as the
conclusion of the study. It can be concluded that after
Higgins teaches her, Eliza's language development is
marked by much less of double negatives, none of the use
of aint, and the lesser use of functional improprieties.
Besides, her language development can also be seen from
her tendency of using more complex sentences than other
sentence structures.