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The interactional patterns reveal how discoursal work is done in continuous verbal exchanges which leads to effective or non-effective communication. The conversational strategies and patterns examined include the rates of successful initiation of discourse topic, both with question and with statement forms, and the use of various regulatory linguistic devices which coordinate verbal interaction. It is suggested that Indian authors/users of English are influenced by their native sociocultural and linguistic contexts, hence these formal characteristics of Hindi are transferred into English. Moreover the social dimension gender is being transcreated.","Third, this study questions why in previous studies on varieties of English the social dimension gender has not been included to help distinguish non-native varieties further from standard English varieties. In order to attempt to answer this question the concepts of transference and creativity are introduced and discussed. An examination of gender in Indian English helps to further explain and distinguish the non-nativeness of this variety and contributes to the creative innovations in terms of the formal characteristics, the socially-determined speech functions, and the sociocultural components involved in the transcreational process. Furthermore, to fully understand the process of transference the traditional social and cultural categories of India from which female-types are derived are discussed. (Abstract shortened with permission of author.)","Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-15T20:08:36Z (GMT). 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