Linguistics Colloquium: Presentation by Dr. Suneeta Thomas

The exploration of code-switching (CS) in dynamic, spoken Indian English has been limited in published research. The current study explores the genre of sociopolitical talk and qualitatively examines an episode of an Indian English tv talk show employing conversation analysis methodology, and a world Englishes framework to discover the forms, functions, and motivations of CS in an English matrix context. As a part of a larger longitudinal study, the goal of the project is to map how code-switching patterns and forms in spoken Indian English may change over time in sociopolitical talk.

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