Characteristics of English Used amongst the People in the Rawai Community of Phuket
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This study focuses on the characteristics of spoken English by the people in a community located in Phuket called Rawai, by comparing the syntactic and lexical features to the standard English. The total amount of informants was 28, consisting of a group of traders and inter-married families. Data was tape-recorded by using the techniques of observer as-participant and complete participant. Later on, the recorded conversations were transcribed and analyzed.
The results illustrate that English use among Rawai people was different from those of the standard English, as seen in the aspects of grammar, word order, and word choice. Those characteristics also correspond to what has been suggested in previous studies of pidgin in sociolinguistics, that is pidgin speakers use English vocabulary in Thai syntax. For example, You buy my shirt quick quick madam. (You should buy my shirt quickly.). It was also found that their second language usage reflects the experience of language learning from the real situation because of their necessity of living and trading. Interestingly, the linguistic usage found demonstrates the influence of the first language on constructing another language, and further shows the self-creation of sentence structure and lexicon.
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