Kalaivahni Muthiah

List of John Benjamins publications for which Kalaivahni Muthiah plays a role.

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Muthiah, Kalaivahni 2012 Performing Bombay and displaying stances: Stylized Indian English in fiction English World-Wide 33:3, pp. 264–291 | Article
This article examines novel characters’ use of creatively manufactured language in scripted dialogue, namely stylized Indian English (IndE) in Mistry’s 2002 novel, Family Matters. Broadly, stylized IndE speech contributes to the characters’ performance of localness, an evaluation that reviewers’… read more