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\n[www.alls.aiac.org.au](www.alls.aiac.org.au)  \n| Transformation of English Language inAmitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide\u003Cbr>Zakiyah Tasnim*\u003Cbr>University of Chittagong, Bangladesh\u003Cbr>Corresponding Author: Zakiyah Tasnim, E-mail: [jhumacu@yahoo.com](jhumacu@yahoo.com) |  |\n| --- | --- |\n| ARTICLE INFO\u003Cbr>Article history\u003Cbr>Received: March 15, 2018\u003Cbr>Accepted: May 09, 2018\u003Cbr>Published: June 30, 2018\u003Cbr>Volume: 9 Issue: 3\u003Cbr>Advance access: May 2018 Conflicts of interest: None\u003Cbr>Funding: None | ABSTRACT\u003Cbr>With millions of non-native English language users, English has gained the position of ‘global language’in the last century. English literature also has a significant number of non-native writers from around the world. While grasping their own cultures in English, these non-native writers have been transforming English language to a remarkable extent. On many occasions, these transformed varieties are recognised as versions of English language. This essay explores the notion of translingual writers and their use of English language, taking The Hungry Tide, a novel of the Indian translingual writer Amitav Ghosh, as an example. The novel is studied, along with the works of other researchers, with the sole focus on the transformation of English language init. This study looks for the answers of two questions. They are: 1. How do the translingual writers justify their transformation of English language?; and 2. How is Amitav Ghosh transforming English language in The Hungry Tide and why is he doing it? |\n| Key words:\u003Cbr>Transformation of English Language,translingual writers,‘Words’ as Migrants |  |\n\nINTRODUCTION  \nGlobalization of English language resulted in deviation from or transformation of the standard form of the language among users of different localities. This essay takes the use of transformed forms of English language in literature as its research problem and aims to find out the writers’ justification for using these transformed forms. Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide fulfills the goal of the essay by providing examples of the findings ofthis research showing how local languages migrate to the global English canon.  \nEnglish--the Global Language  \n‘In comparison with other languages of wider communication, knowing English is like possessing the fabled Aladdin’slamp, which permits one to open, as it were, the linguistic gates to international business, technology, science, and travel. In short, English provides power’(1) . The famous Indian linguist Braj Bihari Kachru thus compares the knowledge of English with Aladdin’s lamp that can fulfill any wish in the introduction of his The Alchemy of English.  \nThe strong position of English language, that it earned by colonialism at the beginning of twentieth century, was carried forward by the strong political, economic, scientific, industrial, and socio-cultural power of the USA after The World Wars. The development of computer and internet technology was also dominated by the USA. Movies and music gave English language the international exposure and made  \nit familiar to the far and remote areas around the world. With the emergence of this new English speaking superpower, English language continued and flourished in its glorious reign.  \nBritish linguist David Crystal in his English as a Global Language summarizes the rise of English language thus:  \nBritish political imperialism had sent English around the globe, during the nineteenth century, so that it was a language ‘on which the sun never sets’. During the twentieth century, this world presence was maintained and promoted, almost single-handedly, through the economic supremacy of the new American superpower. (8)  \nMultiple Ownerships of English  \nThe sure outcome of the globalization of English language is the different versions of English in different localities. North America, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, India--all the former colonies developed thei","cbCaivomPwuNVwxG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaivomPwuNVwxG","pdf",185818,"English","# Introduction\n## English—The Global Language\n## Multiple Ownerships of English","[{\"question\":\"What central concept does the essay investigate about English in literature?\",\"answer\":\"It investigates how transformed forms of English language are used in literature and seeks the writers’ justification for using such transformed forms.\"},{\"question\":\"How does the essay connect translingual writers to The Hungry Tide?\",\"answer\":\"It uses The Hungry Tide as an example of a novel by a translingual writer, studying it alongside other researchers’ works to focus on English language transformation.\"},{\"question\":\"Which two research questions does the study aim to answer?\",\"answer\":\"It asks: (1) how translingual writers justify transforming English language, and (2) how Amitav Ghosh transforms English language in The Hungry Tide and why he does it.\"}]","Transformation of English Language in Amitav Ghosh’s The Hungry Tide - ARTICLE INFO ABSTRACT Key words | PDF",1792068116,15]