Open AccessA socio-linguistics view of the resent mixed form used in Bengali
Author(s) -
Salma Nasrin
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
ḍhākā viśvavidyālaẏa bhāṣāvijnāna patrikā
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2408-851X
pISSN - 2075-3098
DOI - 10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3719
Subject(s) - bengali , linguistics , code mixing , code switching , variation (astronomy) , code (set theory) , multilingualism , sociolinguistics , variety (cybernetics) , sociology , computer science , artificial intelligence , set (abstract data type) , philosophy , physics , programming language , astrophysics
As a social phenomenon, language is frequently influenced by different social codes, orders, and customs of society. Apart from the structural variety of language, many social dimensions of languages, develop over the time, occur. Nowadays Bengali- a rich language of south Asia- is encountering such social dimensional changes, as it interacts with its complex socio-cultural components. More elaborately, Bengali exhibits frequently different sociolinguistic characteristics such as code switching and code mixing, bilingualism and multilingualism, social dialect and dialectal free variation, language maintenance and language shift. This paper provides a brief description of sociolinguistic terms mentioned above from the point of view of the recent changes in Bengali. Key words: speech community, sociolect, code switching code mixing, code shifting, language shiftDOI: 10.3329/dujl.v1i2.3719 The Dhaka University Jaurnal of Linguistics: Vol. 1 No.2 Augus, 2008 Page: 115-124