LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 15:5 May 2015
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
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         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
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         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
         N. Nadaraja Pillai, Ph.D.
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Creating Code Language in Peer Talk: A Case of Children from Malda District of West Bengal

Dripta Piplai, Ph.D.

Abstract

Peer Talk of children have been studied from different viewpoints keeping in mind the children’s language use and socialization process (Cook-Gumperz and Kyratzis 2001, Kyratzis 2004). It is evident from peer talk studies that children actively resist the adult culture through peer talk in order to maintain their identity. The paper discusses a case of children’s peer talk where adult language is resisted by the children by adopting a particular strategy. The strategy of children is to create a set of codes by manipulating certain linguistic features where the code is exclusively used among them.

Key words: Peer Talk, cultural categories, playground activities, language use, children’s identity, set of codes

Introduction

Language plays a major role in shaping the children’s social identity. Children use codes of their own while they play. Observation of peer talks at the playground activities exhibit the transformation of cultural categories by children.

This paper:
a) Discusses a strategy of peer talk among the children.
b) Tries to understand how the children are trying to establish a group identity by a newly created form.
c) Tries to understand how the modification of the linguistic features helps them to exclude themselves from adults and also helps them to gain power.
d) Tries to examine if the identity of a low status minority group is creating the ground for the creation of new identities of the children.

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Dripta Piplai, Ph.D.
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University of Calcutta

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West Bengal
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