LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 16:4 April 2016
ISSN 1930-2940

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Semio-Communicative Aspects of
Urdu-Hindi Loan Words in English

Ambreen Sherwani, Ph.D. Scholar

Abstract

Semio-communication deals with the selection and application of linguistic structures and, how the decision to speak in language, the human formal, abstract system of communication, is inextricably bound up with the physical, psychological, functional, pragmatic, cultural universe in essence, the semiotic world. The present study tries to focus upon the semio-communicative aspect of Urdu-Hindi loan words in English, showing their relevance in fulfilling the communication need and their impact on the listeners or readers.

Keywords: Semio-communication, Borrowing, Code-switching, linguistic and referential gaps, Urdu-Hindi loan words in English

Introduction

Communication could be a bipolar development played chiefly by senders and receivers. Apart from these two, a third agent that plays a crucial role in communication is ‘Semiotics’. Semiotics is basically the study of signs and symbols that persons use to represent reality, how these signs and symbols are understood within the world of experience, particularly, globally and universally and the way persons then make use of those signs and symbols to deal with and make sense of their reality and experience. Semiotics, the science of signs and of the codes to grasp them, has nice relevance to several areas of life.

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Ambreen Sherwani, Ph.D. Scholar
Department of Linguistics
Aligarh Muslim University

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