Open AccessSociolinguistics of Hindī An Analysis of TV-Mediated Spoken Hindī Features Through TV Programmes’ Language
Author(s) -
Giulia Ferro
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annali di ca' foscari. serie orientale/annali di ca' foscari. serie orientale
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2385-3042
pISSN - 1125-3789
DOI - 10.30687/annor/2385-3042/2021/01/011
Subject(s) - hindlimb , computer science , lexicon , spoken language , focus (optics) , linguistics , sociolinguistics , natural language processing , biology , philosophy , physics , anatomy , optics
This paper analyses varieties of Hindī language differentiated on the social ground, namely standard Hindī (the sanskritized language) and non-standard Hindī. The latter, which includes different varieties of spoken Hindī, was studied listening to two TV programs: Delhi Crime and Satyamev Jayate . Several features were observed on every level, but here the focus is on syntax (Hindī word order) and lexicon (code-switching). Information structure theory and pragmatics are used to analyse TV-mediated spoken Hindī word order. The comprehension of these special features can be helpful to predict the changes towards which Hindī tends to move and to give examples of the spoken language.