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Mixing, multilingualism, and intelligibility
Author(s) -
Sridhar S. N.,
Sridhar Kamal K.
Publication year - 2018
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/weng.12340
Subject(s) - multilingualism , code mixing , linguistics , intelligibility (philosophy) , neuroscience of multilingualism , language contact , sociolinguistics , sociology , psychology , code switching , philosophy , epistemology
This article expands the discussion of Larry Smith's theory of intelligibility to explore multilingual language use with reference to code‐mixing in the Indian context. Our findings suggest that the understanding of intelligibility in the context of bilingual/multilingual language mixing calls for a rich sociolinguistic model that is socially realistic and culturally rooted.