The Dynamics of Hindi-English Code-Mixing in Indian Social Media Discourse: A Sociolinguistic Study of Youth Communication
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This manuscript investigates the sociolinguistic and pragmatic dynamics of Hindi-English code-mixing ("Hinglish") across digital communication platforms used by Indian youth. In multilingual societies like India, code-mixing serves as a normative, rule-governed mode of expression rather than an accidental divergence from standard linguistic structures. Through a qualitative analysis of syntactic configurations, intra-sentential alterations, and contextual pragmatics in social media discourse, this study examines how young speakers construct digital identities, articulate emotional nuances, and establish in-group solidarity. The findings highlight how Romanized script, functional borrowing, and matrix language frameworks govern user-generated interactions online, illustrating an adaptive bilingual competence within modern digital media.
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Chetia, B. (2017). Code-Switching and Mixing in Communication A Study on Language Contact in Indian Media. SSRN Electronic Journal. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3085969
Vyas, Y., Gella, S., Sharma, J., Bali, K., & Choudhury, M. (2014). POS Tagging of English-Hindi Code-Mixed Social Media Content. Proceedings of the 2014 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP), 974–979. https://doi.org/10.3115/v1/d14-1105
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