Linguistics Film Series: Pygmalion (1938)

Thursday, October 30, 2014 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM EDT
Merten Hall, #3300

G. B. Shaw's play in which a Victorian dialect expert (Professor Henry Higgins) bets that he can teach a lower-class girl to change her accent, speak "proper English", and thus be taken for a lady. It's a phonetic love story. (90 minutes)

Hosted by GMU Linguistics Club.

Sponsored by GMU Linguistics program.