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<p><em>People’s social background is closely related to people’s language behavior, and even people who use the same language will have many differences because of their social backgrounds. The movie “My Fair Lady” gives you a visual enjoyment. And this paper analyzes the film from the perspective of sociolinguistics. The language act presented in this film fully illustrates the relationship between language and social class, gender, and geographical factors, which explains the influence of people’s language behavior on their social status and gender, and also shows the influence of these factors on people’s language behavior. </em></p>

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  • The origin of language is closely related to the origins of human society

  • Different societies have different developing levels, so the language is influenced by different social factors, such as region, social status and gender. 4.1 Language and Region No matter what kind of language are all affected by the geographical to form into different language variants

  • In the film My Fair Lady, the linguist Higgins lived in the urban area of London, while the heroine Eliza lived in the remote slums, it is in the south of London

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The origin of language is closely related to the origins of human society. Language is a social phenomenon, everything in human social life, all or at least is partially reflected in the language. Everything in a particular society of a particular time and space is exactly reflected in the language used by the society, that is, the language reflects all the phenomena and all the activities of society (Ruan, 2002). The authors take the classic film My Fair Lady as the research object, the authors analyze the application and expression of sociolinguistics in social life, which help to further explore the film behind the language of the characters and psychological meaning. In 1964, Audrey Hepburn starred in the classic Hollywood movie My Fair Lady showed in the United States. The film tells the story of a www.scholink.org/ojs/index.php/sll

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