Pygmalion

Shaw, Claire L.

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“…In George Gissing's The Netherworld , most of the poor descend into lives of drunken squalor. Fabian Bernard Shaw (2017[1913], 45) poked fun at the culture of poverty in Pygmalion : ‘Undeserving poverty is my line….it's the only one that has any ginger in it’. Yet even Fabians shared Malthusian concerns about overpopulation, cultural degradation and the gene pool.…”

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Martin

Chevalier

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Why did historical anti-poverty programs in Britain, Denmark and France differ so dramatically in their goals, beneficiaries and agents for addressing poverty? Different cultural views of poverty contributed to how policy makers envisioned anti-poverty reforms. Danish elites articulated social investments in peasants as necessary to economic growth, political stability and societal strength. British elites viewed the lower classes as a challenge to these goals. The French perceived the poor as an opportunity for Christian charity. Fiction writers are overlooked political agents who engage in policy struggles. Collectively, writers contribute to a country's distinctive ‘cultural constraint’, or symbols and narratives, which appears in the national-level aggregation of literature. To assess cross-national variations in cultural depictions of poverty, this article uses historical case studies and quantitative textual analyses of 562 British, 521 Danish and 498 French fictional works from 1770 to 1920.

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Section: Case Study Findingsmentioning

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

Martin

Chevalier

2021

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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“…An example of such an immersion was dramatization of the plays in the L2. A total of 20 students performed different scenes from Pygmalion and Arms and the Men by George Bernard Shaw (1999Shaw ( , 2006. The participants regularly worked with the instructor in class preparing for the final performance once a week for 8 weeks.…”

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The Role of Art-Integrated Input: Implementing Arts to Maximise English Proficiency among Saudi English-Major Undergraduates

Albaqami¹

2020

OJML

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Factors that affect foreign/second language (L2) acquisition include internal factors related to the learners such as motivation and personality-related style preferences as well as external factors related to the learning process such as the amount and quality of input and more interestingly how the latter factors can enhance the former. This paper examines the role of input quality (instructional) during the course of L2 development by integrating arts to facilitate L2 development and boost the learners' motivation by engaging them with masterpieces from classical art as a stimulus. A total number of 30 Arabic learners of English as a foreign language took part in this quasi-experimental study. The experimental group (n = 20) was enrolled in a teaching setting rich with input full of triggers by integrating arts including dramatization and art expedition (e.g. painting, photographing, and sculpting), whereas, the control group (n = 10) was enrolled in a traditional teaching setting. Three instruments were final examinations administered at the end of each semester. Independent-samples t-test was run to identify whether any significant difference existed in L2 proficiency of the control and experimental groups. The findings suggest that L2 learners who were exposed to the instructional settings highly enriched with robust and art-integrated input significantly performed better in L2 proficiency. This suggests that art-integrated input significantly enhanced proficiency of Saudi EFL learners.

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“…This corresponded to Weizenbaum's hope that his program would become more refined and varied, just like the salesgirl under the tutelage of Professor Higgins (Weizenbaum 2015: 87). The choice of a literary work such as Pygmalion, which interrogates the issue of authenticity and performance (Shaw 1916), was not accidental. Faithful to Weizenbaum's behavioral approach, which as explained above aimed at simulating rather than replicating human intelligence, ELIZA resembled the Eliza of Pygmalion fame because it created an appearance of reality, remaining, however, "in the domain of the playwright" (Weizenbaum 1966: 36).…”

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If software is narrative: Joseph Weizenbaum, artificial intelligence and the biographies of ELIZA

Natale

2018

New Media & Society

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Software is usually studied in terms of the changes triggered by its operations in the material world. Yet, to understand its social and cultural impact, one needs to examine also the different narratives that circulate about it. Software's opacity, in fact, makes it prone to being translated into a plurality of narratives that help people make sense of its functioning and presence. Drawing from the case of Joseph Weizenbaum's ELIZA, widely considered the first chatbot ever created, this paper proposes a theoretical framework based on the concept of "biographies of media" to illuminate the dynamics and implications of software's discursive life. The case of ELIZA is particularly relevant in this regard because it became the center of competing narratives, whose trajectories transcended the actual functioning of this program and shaped key controversies about the implications of computing and AI.

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Pygmalion

Cited by 7 publications

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What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

What We Talk about When We Talk about Poverty: Culture and Welfare State Development in Britain, Denmark and France

The Role of Art-Integrated Input: Implementing Arts to Maximise English Proficiency among Saudi English-Major Undergraduates

If software is narrative: Joseph Weizenbaum, artificial intelligence and the biographies of ELIZA

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