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Acute Sporadic English in Bollywood Film Songs’ Lyrics:
A Textual Evidence based Analysis of Code-Mixing in Hindi

Subhash Chandra, M.Phil., Ph.D.
Bhupendra Kumar, Ph.D. Candidate
Vivek Kumar, Ph.D. Candidate
Sakshi, Ph.D. Candidate


Abstract

Bollywood (BW) movies are very rich source of songs with various features of corpora. This study focuses on the English mixing in the songs of BW movies. The song corpora have been collected from various websites that archive Bollywood song’s lyrics in Devanagari and roman scripts. BW produces more than thousand Hindi movies in every year. A single movie contains at least 2-6 songs. The major goal of the study is to identify the language mixing pattern in BW movies songs and then identify the linguistics phenomena for automatic language detection and processing. The songs from the 1008 number of movies released during 2000-2015 were selected, collected and analyze for this study.

Keywords: Code Mixing, Linguistic Pattern in Bollywood Song, Language Mixing, Bollywood songs

1. Introduction

Mixing of two or more languages is very common phenomenon in day to day informal conversation and writing especially in social networks like Facebook, google+ and Tweeter, blogs, social media and chats etc. Dominance of English language in the world everybody specially youngsters are mixing words, phrases and sentences in their languages for chat, informal writings and bloggings through sharing their ideas to making fashionable and interesting. Bollywood (BW) is Mumbai, India, Bollywood based film industry generally produces more than thousand Hindi movies in every year. Each movie may contain up to 6 songs. BW films are musicals and contain attractive music in the form of song and dance numbers woven into the script.

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Dr. Subhash Chandra, M. Phil., Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Computational Linguistics Department of Sanskrit, Faculty of Arts, University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India
subhash.jnu@gmail.com
schandra@sanskrit.du.ac.in


Mr. Bhupendra Kumar
Doctoral Research Scholar
Computational Linguistics Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India
bhupendrakmr87@gmail.com


Mr. Vivek Kumar
Doctoral Research Scholar
Computational Linguistics Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India
vishnorapatyam@gmail.com


Ms. Sakshi
Doctoral Research Scholar
Computational Linguistics Department of Sanskrit, University of Delhi
Delhi-110007, India
sakshi911003@gmail.com

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