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Code‐mixing, style repertoire and language variation: English in Hindi poetic creativity
Author(s) -
KACHRU YAMUNA
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
world englishes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.6
H-Index - 49
eISSN - 1467-971X
pISSN - 0883-2919
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-971x.1989.tb00671.x
Subject(s) - hindi , code mixing , style (visual arts) , sociolinguistics , linguistics , poetry , variation (astronomy) , creativity , context (archaeology) , repertoire , code switching , code (set theory) , mixing (physics) , sociology , literature , computer science , history , psychology , art , philosophy , social psychology , programming language , physics , archaeology , set (abstract data type) , quantum mechanics , astrophysics
In studies on code‐mixing considerable attention has been paid to certain genres of writing in prose. However, there is a paucity of studies on how code‐mixing and the resulting code variation may be exploited in various types of poetic creativity. This paper examines the Hindi poetry of the last three decades to determine the effects—aesthetic and other—of such language and dialect mixing in which English is one partner. This programmatic study focusses on the following: style repertoire in the context of Hindi literature; functions of code‐mixed varieties in Hindi literary works in general; analysis of illustrative texts with mixing from English in poetic works by Madan Vatsyayan, Muktibodh, and others; and finally, the implications for sociolinguistics of such investigations from linguistic and stylistic perspectives.