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The Evolution of Codified Language
With Special Reference to Farrukhabad’s Haat Bazaar
(Open-air Market)

Ahbab Khan

Abstract

The sign language used by the traders is very much emphatic during the local animal fairs (p?šu mela) in the area or region specially the village region. This type of language could also be named as trade language, i.e., Bazaar language being put up for selling and buying of animals from the other commission agents (a:r?h?t?ya:z) or even by traders themselves.

As this language involves the codes i.e. the expressions or words specific for that region gives a special impact to the whole surrounding i.e. even the local residents are not aware of these codes. It is just similar to the codes used by the army personnel who are using these expressions.

All these codes have a direct relationship with the normal human verbal language or even the expressions used in other haat bazaar of the region. A general definition of haat bazaar is “A haat bazaar, most often called only haat or hat, is an open-air market that serves as a trading venue for local people in rural areas and some towns of Nepal, India and Bangladesh. Haat bazaars are conducted on a regular basis, i.e. once, twice, or three times a week and in some places every two weeks. At times, haat bazaars are organized in a different manner, to support or promote trading by and with rural people.” (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haat_bazaar)

Let me introduce one more concept of convergence and divergence in Kannauji used in consonance with the bazaar language or the codified form of trade language spoken in Farrukhabad district.

Keywords: Codes used in general speech, Haat Bazaar, bazaar language, processes of convergence and divergence.

Symbolic Language

Most organisms communicate, but humans are unique in communicating via symbolic language. This entails relationships between signifiers (e.g. words) and what’s signified (e.g. objects or ideas), where what’s special is the construction of a system of relationships among the signifiers themselves, generating a seemingly unlimited web of associations, organized by semantic regularities and constrains, retrieved in narrative form, and enabled by complex memory systems.

Humans are thus a symbolic species: symbols have literally changed the kind of biological organism we are. We think and behave in ways that are quite odd compared to other species because of the way that language has defined us. Symbolic language has become the dominant feature of the cultural environment to which we must adapt in order to flourish; the demands imposed by this niche have favored mental capacities and biases that guarantee successful access to this essential resource.

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Ahbab Khan
Research Scholar
Department of Linguistics
A.M.U., Aligarh
Uttar Pradesh
India
ahbabalikhan@gmail.com

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