Publications

Publication details [#59026]

Sultana, Shaila. 2014. Young adults' linguistic manipulation of English in Bangla in Bangladesh. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism 17 (1) : 74–89.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

bilingualism | creativity | internet | language use | university

Language as a subject

Bangla | English

Place, Publisher

Routledge

Journal WWW

www.multilingual-matters.com/multi/onlinej.asp

Annotation

Bilingual students in a Bangladesh university are shown to creatively, strategically and pragmatically employ linguistic and semantic English and Bangla forms in their face-to-face and Facebook conversations, English offering novel metalinguistic and indexical options.