ON LINGUISTICS AND LITERARY STUDIES IN INDIA A FESTSCHRIFT FOR PROF. P. PERUMALSAMY (original) (raw)
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2020
The study maps thoroughly how different concepts and theoretical aspects of linguistics are applied in literary criticism. Diverse linguistic features are analyzed in literary criticism to highlight how they are used differently by poets and writers from the way they are commonly used. Since the early 20 th century, due to the influence of formalistic critical practice, it has been the common pursuits of the critics to enquire how special uses of linguistic elements contribute to achieve the literariness in a text. Further, it is interesting to note that that from the mid-20 th century linguistic codes and conventions have been appropriated as the paradigm in a number of Language in India www.languageinindia.com
Selected writings on Indian linguistics and philology
1997
Introduction (by M. Witzel). A. PAN-INDIAN. DRAVIDIAN AND MUNDA STUDIES. B. VEDIC AND IRANIAN STUDIES. C. NOTES ON VEDIC NOUN-INFLEXION. Mededelingen der Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Afd. Letterkunde, 5/4, pp. 161-256. Word index (by A. Lubotsky and M.S. Oort). Errata.
Dash, N.S. (2013) Applied Linguistics. New Delhi: Heritage Publishers.
Heritage Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2024
The author has made an effort to introduce some new methods, ideas, and strategies for English Language Teaching, Dictionary Making, Translation, and Dialectology with direct utilization of data and information elicited from language corpora in English and Indian languages developed in digital form. The primary goal of this book is to train the new generation of Indian linguists in the utilization of language corpora in various works of applied linguistics. The book is enriched with references to recent works carried out in various parts of the world. This will help readers to know how novel approaches are being used to make valuable improvements over the traditional methods and techniques used in different branches of applied linguistics. The book is best suited to be used as text-cum-course book at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in Indian universities. It can also be used as a reference book by students, teachers, and researchers working in these areas of applied linguistics. Moreover, general people interested in these areas will find this book highly useful for new insights, methods, and information. The academic importance of this book may be attested to in its direct focus on the Indian contexts of applied linguistic research and development works. The book sincerely appeals to the people engaged in different branches of applied linguistics to redirect their focus towards this new approach for the benefit of the discipline as well as for better service to the country and its people.
Dash: Language and Linguistics: Heritage, New Delhi (2011)
Heritage Publishers, New Delhi, India, 2011
This introductory book covers almost all the major areas, domains, issues and aspects of general descriptive linguistics in a very lucid and simplified manner so that anyone interested in language and linguistics can easily gather some ideas about the discipline. The importance of the book lies in its elaborate presentation of information and data for general academic and referential purposes. The book is the first of its kind that tries to furnish new information and findings that are hardly presented before the students and scholars willing to know more about the general aspects of natural languages and linguistics. Since the level of the book is a general one, it does not include the findings of research and investigation, which are more complex in nature and which ask for specialized knowledge of the discipline as traced among the scholars baptized in the discipline called Linguistics. Rather, in simple term, this book includes simple descriptions and analyses of some notable findings and studies on the general areas of linguistics which can easily be liked by students of linguistics and general readers. In the present global scenario, there is hardly any book on general and descriptive linguistics which can be greatly useful for the undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics of colleges and universities of India and other countries. This book is primarily written to address the needs of these learners. Thus, the target readers of this book are undergraduate and postgraduate students of Linguistics in India and similar countries. This book will also be useful for general readers who are interested in various aspects and properties of natural languages and linguistics. It can be highly referential for scholars and researchers working in various fields of general linguistics (e.g., descriptive linguistics, features of language, origin of language, branches of linguistics, functions of language, human and non-human communication, etc.). The students and teachers of Linguistics can use this book as a reference-cum-text book in classroom teaching.
This article provides a survey of the developments that have taken place in the description of Indian English (IndE) in the past two centuries, with particular attention to the phenomena of language (e.g. phonology, lexicogrammar, and pragmatics) that have been examined from a descriptive perspective. The evolution of English in India through centuries of use, first during the colonial period and then as the “associate official language” of independent India, stimulated the development of descriptions of all aspects of the language. The critical review in this article, however, demonstrates that the linguistic descriptions except those in relation to society are scant and the often-made intuitive observation that IndE is extensively studied does not apply to the description of linguistic phenomena. While providing lists of features based on impressionistic or small-scale data dominated the later part of the 20th century, the focus of current research has shifted to corpus-based and quantitative investigations. This article explores the systems of IndE that have been studied in descriptive research, shows that the attitude towards linguistic descriptions is linked to the growth and use of English over time, and aims to stimulate further research by posing key questions that need to be answered.
North East Indian linguistics 6
2014
with previous conferences, these meetings were held at the Don Bosco Institute in Guwahati, Assam, and hosted in collaboration with Gauhati University. The present collection of papers are testament to the ongoing interest in North East India and continued success and growth in the community of North East Indian linguists. As in previous volumes, all the papers here were reviewed by leading international specialists in the relevant subfields. This volume, in particular, highlights the recent research of many scholars from the region. Out of eleven contributions, eight are from North East Indian scholars themselves. This book therefore brightly shines light on the work being done by North East Indian linguists on the languages of their own region. The remaining contributions are authored by international scholars from Australia,