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A Study of Language Change of Migrants with reference to
the Bhojpuri Speech Community in Tezpur of Assam

Dr. Binda Sah, M.A., PGCTE, Ph.D.

Abstract

Language is a decisive factor in the life of migrants as it governs their everyday communication. As most of the migrants are workers or businessmen, they need to communicate effectively in the immediate environment, and hence they feel the necessity of adapting the language commonly used for communication. Their adapting effort sometimes drags them in an embarrassing situation thanks to their wrong use of vocabularies and often the tone of their mother tongue. For some, such embarrassment turns out to be deterrent in the process of their adaptation with the new language, whereas many continue to learn the language despite embarrassment which eventually results in their language change. The paper aims to study the language change or adaptation of language of the host land by migrants with reference to the Bhojpuri speech community in Tezpur of Assam, India.

Keywords: Language change, Language shift, multilingualism of migrants.

Introduction

Language is a decisive factor in the life of migrants as it governs their everyday communication. As most of the migrants are workers or businessmen, they need to communicate effectively in the immediate environment, and hence they feel the necessity of adapting the language commonly used for communication. Their adapting effort sometimes drags them in an embarrassing situation thanks to their wrong use of vocabularies and often the tone of their mother tongue. For some, such embarrassment turns out to be deterrent in the process of their adaptation with the new language, whereas many continue to learn the language despite embarrassment which eventually results in their language change. The paper aims to study the language change or adaptation of language of the host land by migrants with reference to the Bhojpuri speech community in Tezpur of Assam, India.

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Dr. Binda Sah, M.A., PGCTE, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of English
North Lakhimpur College (Autonomous)
North Lakhimpur
Assam – 787031
India
sahbinda@gmail.com
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