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Code Switching in Kailasam's Play -
Poli Kitty

B. A. Mahalakshmi Prasad, M.A.

T. P. Kailasam, Kannada playwright

Code Switching in Writing

The study of the phenomenon of Code Switching in writing is in its infancy. Grosjean (1982) notes that "code switching is a very common phenomenon and writers reflect this in their work." McClure (2001), in her investigation of Assyrian English code switching in writing and in speech, noticed that oral Code Switching has wider range and function in speech and that code switching patterns differ in genre of written text. McClure (2001) reiterates that although creative writing portrays similarities and differences found between speech and writing, the phenomenon of code switching in writing has not received much attention by scholars.

Scholars have exhaustively studied the plays of T. P. Kailasam (1884-1946), a modern playwright in Kannada, a Dravidian language spoken mainly in the states of Karnataka, Tamilnadu, Andhra Pradesh and larger cities in India, from various literary perspectives. However, there has been scant research on the phenomenon of code switching and Code mixing in Kailasam's plays.

This paper looks at the plays of the Kannada playwright Kailasam who, in his plays, profusely employed code switching in the dialogues in order to effectively deliver the punch line. The paper will look at the play "Poly Kitty" by Kailasam in the framework of Austin's (1962) "performative utterances".

Introduction

"All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players:
They have their exits and their entrances"- Shakespeare, As you Like It.
These are lines of eternal truth made by the very famous playwright and dramatist Shakespeare. As actors, we deliver our dialogues according to situations while at the same time send a meta message about who we are, what we are, what we think and what we want. The use of language has reached great heights and we consciously or unconsciously employ techniques like body language, gesture, tones, etc., to make our speech effective.

In the written form of play, however, there exists a great difficultly to present the subtle nuances of communication that are found in speech. In plays, the playwright, among other techniques, employs the phenomenon of code switching to make the reader aware of the Meta-message.

Meta-message is a second message, encoded and super-imposed upon the basic message, which indicates how we want someone to take the basic message.

T. P. Kailasam's Kannada play <i>Poli Kitty</i>

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B. A. Mahalakshmi Prasad. M.A
Department of English
SBRR Mahajana First Grade College
Jayalakshmipuram
Mysore-570012
Karnataka, India machiprasad@gmail.com

 
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