Moreover, they also show how in an extract from The Cord, a play by the Malaysian writer K.S. refer to the use of such local terms as 'obi' (hut), 'kurta' (shirt) etc. 'The Future Memory and the Metaphysics of Technological Space' Text in Flux as Narrative Strategy in The God of Small Things' 50 Years of Indian Writing (ed.) R.K. 23, 1997, Arundhati Roy in it says that 'My book is not the best book. 'The Booker of the year', The Hindu Magazine, Nov. On First Looking into The God of Small Things in Poetcrit, January, 1999, Maranda, H.P.

Driesen's paper entitled 'When Language Dances: The Subversive Power of Roy's Text in The God of Small Things' in Arundhati Roy. Beth Yahp in her review, 'Larger than Life,' admires Roy's 'verbal wizardy.' vide C.V.All further references from this book are indicated by Page No. Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things (New Delhi, Indiaink 1997).Aijaz Ahmed, 'Reading Arundhati Roy Politically', Frontline, 8th August, 1997, p.A Broad Study on Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things, in The Indian Journal of English Studies, Vol.

The study shows how the author has skillfully used these strategies to unravel the indigenous cultural and social customs and mindset of the people within a particular indigenous community as well as the role-relationship between the interlocutors in a particular communicative context. The text chosen for this purpose is Arundhati Roy's The God of Small Things and the analysis is based on the grammatical and pragmatic explanation of indigenous words which mostly belong to the area of interpersonal communication. Keeping the above in mind, the present paper attempts to analyze the role of these strategies in indigenous interpersonal communicative contexts in Indian English fiction. However, a significant gap becomes noticeable and needs to be explored in Indian English fiction where creative writers have dexterously used these communicative strategies. While majority of the research was conducted in the spoken form from the real-life contexts, a few were directed towards the written forms in literary genres and computer-mediated communication. These strategies have traversed from real life situations to creative writings to social networking domains and are dominant in bilingual or multilingual societies for multifarious reasons. Communicative strategies like code-switching and code-mixing have interested researchers the world over.

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