LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 11 : 12 December 2011
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
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English Borrowings in the Modern Tamil Literature and Tamil Lexicon

T. Karunakaran, Ph.D. Scholar in ELE

Abstract

When two or more languages in contact, they borrow words from each other as borrowings facilitate communication between people. English borrowings are enormously used by the writers of various kinds nowadays and it is well acclaimed by many people from all levels. Since English borrowings make communication easy, many writers opt to use English borrowings in their literary works in order to make the readers understand the contents well.

Many Tamil equivalents to English borrowings are not used and English borrowings are used to express things clear when they write poems, plays, fictions, and short stories in Tamil. This paper captures the use of English borrowings in literary works produced by Tamil writers in Jaffna. To analyze the impact of use of English borrowings in Tamil literature, some literary works produced by Jaffna Tamil writers are taken for discussion.

Key words: English borrowings, Tamil literature, Jaffna Tamil

1.0 Introduction

The features and functions of English borrowings in Tamil writings are discussed in this paper. A few examples of English borrowings from fiction, poetry and drama in Tamil written from 1990 up to date and a Tamil lexicon titled “kriyaa:vin ?atka:la? ?amil” have been chosen for analysis. It is assumed that the selected Tamil writings of Jaffna writers will reflect the culture of Jaffna Tamil society and unavoidably show evidence of the use of English borrowings in society.

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T. Karunakaran, Ph.D. Scholar in ELE
EFL University
Hyderabad 500 605
Andhra Pradesh
India
karuenglish@yahoo.com
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