Hybridisation and Lexical Variation: An In-depth Analysis of The Ministry of Utmost Happiness
Farwa Qazalbash,
Humaira Irfan,
Zehra Batool
Abstract:Hybridization and lexical variation are phenomena that are prevalent in many cultural domains, which as a process define the instances of hybridity in language and culture. The current study aims to investigate the variation English language in Arundhati Roy’s, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness to study the incorporation of code mixing between L1 (Hindi-Urdu) and L2 (English). This research also investigates how code-mixing results in lexical variation and hybridization in the context of South Asian languages. … Show more
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