Linguistic Aspects of Communication Between Mothers and Daughters in Modern Hindi (Evidence from Krishna Sobti's Stories)

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10.2991/csis-18.2019.101How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Hindi literature; women writing; subordination system; family communication; personal pronouns

Abstract

In the modern world, the hierarchical social structures of a traditional society (including the extended family) are undergoing serious changes, which are reflected on the communicative level. The paper considers one of the aspects of communication between mothers and adult daughters: the second person pronouns and corresponding verbal forms that they use. Due to the fact that in Hindi one of the key characteristics of these language units is the degree of politeness (intimate, neutral or honorific), examination of these units' behavior in the texts allows us to draw conclusions about the features of the hierarchical relations between the participants of communication. The study is based on the two stories by Krishna Sobti (a classic of contemporary Hindi literature), reflecting problems faced by women from different strata of Indian society.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Anna Chelnokova
AU  - Ekaterina Kostina
PY  - 2019/02
DA  - 2019/02
TI  - Linguistic Aspects of Communication Between Mothers and Daughters in Modern Hindi (Evidence from Krishna Sobti's Stories)
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Communicative Strategies of Information Society (CSIS 2018)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 500
EP  - 505
SN  - 2352-5398
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DO  - 10.2991/csis-18.2019.101
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