Manipulating the context: The use of English borrowings as a discourse strategy by Tamil fish vendors

Arts and Humanities

• Borrowing 100%
• Discourse strategies 100%
• Buyers 66%
• Monolingual 33%
• GaIN 33%
• Speaker 33%
• Code choice 33%
• Social Context 33%
• Lexical borrowing 33%
• Social Complexity 33%
• Socioeconomic Status 33%

Keyphrases

• English Borrowing 100%
• Fish Consumers 100%
• Discourse Strategies 100%
• Lexical Borrowing 50%
• English Proficiency 50%
• Limited English 50%

Social Sciences

• Tamil 100%
• Group Membership 50%
• Middle Class 50%
• Social Status 50%
• Socioeconomic Status 50%
• Social Stratification 50%