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Pygmalion

Pygmalion. Perry C. Hanavan, Au.D. Bernard Shaw.

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Pygmalion

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  1. Pygmalion Perry C. Hanavan, Au.D.

  2. Bernard Shaw • Concerned about the inconsistency of English spelling, he willed a portion of his wealth to fund the creation of a new phonemic alphabet for the English language. On his death bed, he did not have much money to leave so no effort was made to start such a project. However, his estate began to earn significant royalties from the rights to Pygmalion when My Fair Lady, a musical based on the play, became a hit. It then became clear that the will was so badly worded that the relatives had grounds to challenge the will and in the end an out of court settlement granted a small portion of the money to promoting a new alphabet. This became known as the Shavian alphabet. The National Gallery of Ireland also received a substantial donation.

  3. Henry Sweet • Henry Sweet 1845–1912, English philologist and phonetician. An authority on Anglo-Saxon and the history of the English language, Sweet was also a pioneer in modern scientific phonetics. His History of English Sounds (1874) was a landmark in that study. In 1901 he was made a reader in phonetics at Oxford. Among his other writings are A Handbook of Phonetics (1877), A New English Grammar (2 parts, 1892–95), The History of Language (1900), The Sounds of English (1908), and works on Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and Icelandic. Sweet was the model for Professor Higgins in G. B. Shaw's play Pygmalion.

  4. Henry Sweet

  5. Cooley’s Looking-Glass-Self • How you view yourself depends on your perceptions of how others see you • the imagination of our appearance to the other person (imaging self) • the imagination of other’s judgment of that appearance (interpreting others reactions) • some sort of self-feeling, such as pride or mortification (self-image)

  6. A Teacher’s/Therapist’s Looking Glass "I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; I know I can be a lady to you because you always treat me as a lady and always will." • View parents as subordinates (flower girl) • View parents as partners (lady)

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