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BEING ‘ENGLISH’: A NOTE ON ITS ADAPTABILITY, ACCEPTABILITY AND AVAILABILITY DR. SWETA SINHA , (CENTRE FOR LINGUISTICS, JAWAHARLAL NEHRU UNIVERSITY, INDIA)
ABSTRACT: India is rich in terms of languages spoken by its people. Each of its citizens is at least bilingual and many are multilingual without doubt. In such a situation the prevailing problem is the availability of a mutually intelligible language. The only language that has efficiently and consistently helped us to overcome this problem across the length and breadth of the country is English. It is no longer considered as a foreign language. The versatility and flexibility of the language in terms of use has led to the creation of regional versions of the language which are hugely different from the standard RP (Received Pronunciation). The language adapts to the different mother tongue influences and has become highly Indianized. As a result it is widely accepted by one and all and is available in the communication of all our needs. It has imbibed the tone, intonation, pronunciation and accent of the mother tongues of the speakers. Not just that, the speakers use English words and …show more content…

We have cases of partial as well as complete reduplication forms which are used for various purposes. If an action word is reduplicated then the intended meaning is to emphasize on the intended action as in /jaldi- jaldi/ (Hindi) which means ‘faster’; /dheere- dheere/ meaning ‘ slower’ or /bahut- bahut/ meaning’ extremely’. When a noun is reduplicated completely then the intended meaning is often to convey the plurality of the nouns as in /bachche- bachche/ meaning ‘children’ or /pani- pani/ meaning ‘water everywhere’. Now this feature has been adopted for the various varieties of English being spoken in our country. Take for

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