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Publication details [#28063]

Suresh Canagarajah, A. 1995. Manipulating the context: The use of English borrowings as a discourse strategy by Tamil fish vendors. Multilingua 14 (1) : 5–24.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

borrowing | code-switching | context | identity negotiation | interaction

Language as a subject

English | Tamil

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter Mouton

ISBN

0167-8507

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/MULT/html

Annotation

This paper argues that the code choice of Tamil Fish vendors, who use English borrowings in their bargaining interactions with bilingual middle-class buyers, constitutes a discourse strategy that reconstructs social context in order to defend their (political and) economic interests.