Hinglish: code-switching in Indian English

Sailaja, Pingali

doi:10.1093/elt/ccr047

Cited by 13 publications

(9 citation statements)

References 3 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…A majority insists that such Sinhala lexical items are not used in their spoken discourse and English terms are now so integrated into Sinhala utterances. Similar to Sailaja's (2011) study on Hinglish, this sociolinguistic analysis proposes CM as the alternate code to be used by Sinhala-English speakers in both formal and informal contexts.…”

Section: Attitudinal Characteristics Of the Respondentsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Exploring the Sociolinguistic Aspects of Sinhala-English Code-Mixing among Urban Sri Lankan Bilingual Speakers

Shashikala¹

2021

OJML

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Language mixing has become a natural phenomenon in the spoken discourse of the urban Sinhalese-English bilinguals today. This study examines how and why they mix codes from a sociolinguistic perspective and analyzes the structural properties of such code-mixing (CM) found in their speech. This study follows a descriptive qualitative method. This is qualitative since this depends on data that include words, phrases and sentences and is descriptive since it provides an accurate factual description of a setting. The sample comprised 30 bilinguals from the employed bilingual population in the main urban city of Sri Lanka due to their frequent use of the mixed-code in conversation. For a comprehensive analysis of the sociolinguistic aspects of the respondents' speech, a sociolinguistic questionnaire based on the four discourse strategies: foregrounding, nativization, hybridization, and neutralization as proposed by Kachru (1978Kachru ( /1983Kachru ( /1986) was used. For the structural analysis, their spontaneous speech was recorded, and the framework of Muysken (2000): insertion, alternation, and congruent lexicalization (CL) was used. The findings report that this mixed-variety has evolved due to CM and is undoubtedly the preferred code for expressing neutralization of attitudes in speech. Further, their language choice seems to have been influenced by the age. Structurally, this discussion proves insertion as the major CM strategy in the bilinguals' spoken variety, while CL is the least used. From a pedagogical perspective, this study proposes CM as a possible communicative strategy to promote interaction among students in the second language learning-teaching context in Sri Lanka.

show abstract

Section: Attitudinal Characteristics Of the Respondentsmentioning

confidence: 96%

Exploring the Sociolinguistic Aspects of Sinhala-English Code-Mixing among Urban Sri Lankan Bilingual Speakers

Shashikala¹

2021

OJML

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…In India, the prevalence of English and code-switching between Indian languages and English is not new, and has been well-documented (Kachru 1978(Kachru , 1983(Kachru , 1986Parasher 1991;Srivastava and Sharma 1991). Studies on code-switching among Indian speakers have been observed in Hindi movies/Bollywood (Sailaja 2011;Si 2010;Thomas 2010), among Hindi-English bilinguals (Klingler 2017), and among Kannada-English and Malayalam-English bilinguals (Hegde et. al 2011), among several others.…”

Section: Tv Talk Shows As a Rich Site Of Code-switching Phenomenamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…This study, thus, attempts to fill this gap in research by investigating the phenomena of code-switching and code-mixing in spoken Indian English. It additionally chooses the genre of sociopolitical talk in Indian English tv talk shows as its site of investigation since it readily lends itself to dynamic interaction, and the investigation of Indian media contexts has already been established in code-switching research (Gardner-Chloros and Charles 2007;Gargesh and Sharma 2019;Sailaja 2011;Si 2010;Thomas 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Code-Switching in Spoken Indian English: A Case Study of Sociopolitical Talk

Thomas

2021

JCP

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

In India, the prevalence of (Indian) English and code-switching between languages is not new. However, there has been a dearth of research that explores code-switching in Indian English (IE) within the genre of sociopolitical talk in Indian English tv talk shows. The current study is a part of a larger longitudinal study that analyzes code-switching patterns across the previous decade in Indian English tv talk shows and is the first in the series of follow-up studies. This study qualitatively examines an episode of an Indian English tv talk show to determine code-switching (CS) patterns and functions in IE. The study employed linguistic analysis, Meyerhoff's (2007) accommodation theory, Sacks, Schegloff, and Jeferrson's (1974) conversation analysis methodology, and a world Englishes framework to discover the forms, functions, and motivations of CS in an English matrix context. Findings confirm Si's (2010) results that speakers preferred higher number of English alternations and insertions than Hindi code-switches, while Hindi-only turns were relatively few. Functions of analyzed code-switches also indicated intentions to reformulate, repeat, quote, connect with or diverge from other interlocutors, and generate emphasis in discourse. The study concludes with implications for Indian English and avenues for future research.

show abstract

“…Müller (2015) opined that though the stylistic function of code-switching played a major role in the literature on a micro-level, yet on the macro-level that kind of code-switching could be considered to be a response to bilingual identity. Many aspects of code-switching and code-mixing between Hindi and English have also been studied (Chetia, 2017;Sailaja, 2011). Chetia (2017 observed that in a multilingual country like India, code-mixing and code-switching have become a norm rather than a deviation.…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Chetia (2017 observed that in a multilingual country like India, code-mixing and code-switching have become a norm rather than a deviation. Studies have also been carried out in the fields of advertisements, TV shows, and Bollywood movies (Kathpalia, 2015;Herring, 2003;Mónica, 2009;Sailaja, 2011).…”

Section: Review Of Literaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Role of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in Indigenous Communicative Contexts: A Study of The God of Small Things

Mukherjee¹,

Mohanty²

2020

rupkatha

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Communicative strategies like code-switching and code-mixing have interested researchers the world over. These strategies have traversed from real life situations to creative writings to social networking domains and are dominant in bilingual or multi-lingual societies for multifarious reasons. While majority of the research was conducted in the spoken form from the real-life contexts, a few were directed towards the written forms in literary genres and computer-mediated communication. However, a significant gap becomes noticeable and needs to be explored in Indian English fiction where creative writers have dexterously used these communicative strategies. Keeping the above in mind, the present paper attempts to analyze the role of these strategies in indigenous interpersonal communicative contexts in Indian English fiction. The text chosen for this purpose is Arundhati Roy's TheGod o Small Things and the analysis is based on the grammatical and pragmatic explanation of indigenous words which mostly belong to the area of interpersonal communication. The study shows how the author has skillfully used these strategies to unravel the indigenous cultural and social customs and mindset of the people within a particular indigenous community as well as the role-relationship between the interlocutors in a particular communicative context.

show abstract

Hinglish: code-switching in Indian English

Cited by 13 publications

References 3 publications

Exploring the Sociolinguistic Aspects of Sinhala-English Code-Mixing among Urban Sri Lankan Bilingual Speakers

Exploring the Sociolinguistic Aspects of Sinhala-English Code-Mixing among Urban Sri Lankan Bilingual Speakers

Code-Switching in Spoken Indian English: A Case Study of Sociopolitical Talk

Role of Code-Switching and Code-Mixing in Indigenous Communicative Contexts: A Study of The God of Small Things

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About