Underpinning Language Variation and Freedom: Society & Emergence of Slang in Indian Cinema
Journal Title: Argotica - Year 2016, Vol 0, Issue 1
Abstract
Through the decades, philosophers of language as well as practitioners of semantics and pragmatics like John SEARLE (1971) while developing theories on meanings have studied all type of speech with interest; yet until date, we are still in the dark about the universal principles guiding the selection of linguistic constructions such as slangs. The present paper is an observational analysis of the scope of slangs in a specific field i.e. Bollywood (2007 until the present year) and it attempts to examine the extent and rate of language change w.r.t. its liberty and freedom as exercised or harnessed by the women in India. The Bollywood, film industry has always been about people and the society structure of contemporary time and hence been the language and even the titles of the movies. An example being the dialogues used in Golmaal Returns were decent discourse is scripted in Raima Sen’s part while its sequel Golmaal 3 demanded Kareena Kapoor to be a comfortable abuser. Moreover, titles with slangs are also being used like Lafangey Parindey and Kaminey, which are very commonly engrained terms used in social discourse. Emphasis however is on how this very freedom and openness has emancipated the language of the women in Indian society from a soft, shy and ideal vocab priority to the bold, open lexicons including dictionary of slangs. Thus, the paper posits that the freedom of language use for Indian women has become broader in its scope paving way for their freedom in the India society.
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Urjani Chakravarty
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