Gendered Information Networks and the Telephone Voice in Shaw's Pygmalion and Village Wooing.

This article considers women's contributions to the work of linguistic purification through their enforcement of the "telephone voice," a strict method of articulation taught to switchboard operators. Situating George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion and Village Wooing in their technological climate, it arg...

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Publicado en:Texas Studies in Literature & Language Vol. 60; no. 1; pp. 32 - 56
Autor principal: Janechek, Jennifer
Formato: Performance Review
Publicado: University of Texas Press Spring2018
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