HuSS: International Journal of Research in Humanities and Social Sciences

K. Karunakaran ¹, R. Krishnan ¹

Affiliations
1 University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, MY

Abstract

Particles can be found in noun morphological forms and verb morphological forms to denote meaning in wider and deeper contexts. The aim of this study is to identify all those particles in modern Tamil and classify them based on their occurrence in morphological forms and phrases and explain their contextual/functional significance and explain their functional importance in achieving adequacy and coherency in language structure and language use with reference to modern standard Tamil focusing on competence and performance of the language users.

Keywords

Accent, Appropriateness, Coherency, Cohesiveness, Competence, Inflected Forms, Morphological Forms, Pitch, Syntactico-Semantic Relation, Tone.

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K. Karunakaran ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Linguistics, Bharathiar University, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, IN

Abstract

Language has two sides from the points of view of its structure and use since it has social and functional significance in its everyday application. The significance and relevance are interdependent, as one cannot think of a language without a society by which it is used, and vice versa. The functional aspect of language is imperative in the formal and informal contexts starting from the home domain. Mainly, there are two styles of language a human being possesses - 'careful speech style' and 'casual speech style' - which is chosen contextually. Language has a well defined structure but for a few exceptions. These structural similarities and distinctive variations/differences have to be explicitly made known to the learners especially in ELT or TLT.

Keywords

CALL, Cohesion, Coherence, Contextual Meaning, F-Fu-M Relationship, Lexical Meaning.

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