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Reviews of well-read novels on Goodreads are in the form of a discussion forum and provide an alternative discursive pattern. This paper is centered on the Indian Narrative Tradition, contending that such an approach enables us to critically engage with the reviews as a case study, thus synthesizing a narrative design developed through practice. Unlike other reviews that focus on benefits or lack thereof, there are no acknowledged rules for book reviews on Goodreads. The paper analyzes the reviews and defines a book review within narrative research. The quality of the reviews is aimed at describing alternative domestication patterns. The selection of classic novels for review is employed to maintain an effective strategy. Thus, it is demonstrated that the dynamics of alternative narrative during the process of review writing follows the organizational pattern of Indian Narrative Tradition. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Communication

World University root node

IUP Journal of English Studies

Analyzing Book Reviews Within Indian Narrative Tradition.

The present paper explicates some main characteristics of the function related to literary multilingualism in Indian Diasporic literary discourse. Literary multilingualism can be defined as a phenomenon where word groups whose structures and meanings cannot be derived from a single language directly as they occur in two or more languages. In particular, it focuses on selective multilingualism especially features of spoken discourse that authors like Amitav Ghosh, Chitra B. Divakaruni, Kiran Desai and Rohinton Mistry recurrently use in their novels, and generally which has not been accounted for within linguistic research. By collating Relevance Theory with the use of literary multilingualism, it is proposed that writers who adopt such an approach are dissolving the boundaries between spoken and literary discourse for multiple reasons. This claim will be elucidated through the analysis of the novels within the framework of the concept of a ‘cognitive environment’ as explicated by Sperber and Wilson in their discussion of Relevance Theory (2002 249). The paper explores functions of literary multilingualism in Indian Diasporic literary discourse thus adding a new perspective to the typologies which often have been set up mainly to account for multilingualism in spoken discourse. © 2018 Shanghai Normal University. All rights reserved.

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Exploring literary multilingualism in Indian diasporic writing

Studia Translatorica

Of world literature and challenges in translation:An intercultural perspective

FOURTH SAINT PETERSBURG WINTER SYMPOSIUM ON EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCHES OF LANGUAGE AND SPEECH

Creativity in Slang Emergence: A Case Interpretation of Indo-Aryan Languages

The current work attempts to explore the issues present during indirect translation of multimodal word texts like a world comics created by Hergé with the help of a pragmatic theory, Relevance Theory of Communication propounded by Sperber and Wilson (1986, Relevance: Communication and Cognition, Blackwell, 1995), which has been successfully applied in the domain of translation by several scholars, notable and foremost among them being Ernst-August Gutt (Translation and Relevance: Cognition And Context, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1991, Translation and Relevance: Cognition And Context, St. Jerome, 2000). Using the insights provided by Gutt’s application of Relevance Theory to translation, this chapter will attempt a comparative analysis of Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin and its highly popular Bengali rendering. While acknowledging that linguistic differences are one major hurdle to be overcome for successful translation, the relevance-theoretic approaches bring out that contextual differences constitute a second major hurdle, of at least equal importance to the linguistic one. Thus, the study posits that one can depend on the assumption that multimodal world texts can also be called as visual world literature, and the related issues can be explicated through assistance by means of Mona Bakers Translation Universals

The English Paradigm in India

Mediation of multimodal word literature and indirect translation: Analysing The Adventures of Tintin

Humour as represented vis-à-vis situational comedy in general forms an important aspect of interpersonal communication. Though the reception of humour is often ascribed to personal taste, the extent to which an audience will find something humorous depends upon a multitude of factors, including benchmarks of culture and context. Regardless of the factors, it is observed that situational comedies elicit laughter through non-linguistic strategies. ‘Fillers’ mark one of the non-linguistic strategies of interpersonal communication. These have varied functions in all possible socio-cultural environments as well as in discourse construction. In addition to being universal in nature, ‘Fillers’ also facilitate the interpretation process and understanding. Using Sperber and Wilson’s Relevance Theory (2002), the study examines the selective communication situations with their interpretation process and understanding (cognitive effects) between the characters of American sitcom The Big Bang Theory. The article contends that ‘filler pause’ (termed as such in this article) used in a situational comedy have a function to play, namely, they tend to break down the formal barrier in an interpersonal communication and act as a humour trigger.

Fulltext

Journal of Creative Communications

Interpreting ‘Filler Pause’ in Interpersonal Communication: A Study of Situational Comedy The Big Bang Theory

Linguistic landscaping as a domain of study has been taking momentum slowly with scholars focusing
on public signs from different settings and cultures. The requirement of such focus becomes relevant
as through studying signs in the public space, a great deal of information can be inferred about a
country. The term linguistic landscape was first time mentioned by R. Landry and R. Bourhis with the
meaning “the language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names,
commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings combines to form the LL of a given
territory, region, or urban agglomeration” (1997, pp. 25). The study of newer forms of public signs in
this age of digital media can lead to further clarity in the complexity presented by linguistic landscaping
in a multilingual society like India.

This article draws on insight from linguistic landscaping and socio-pragmatics to explore how
language data as used in the contemporary Indian Cookery Shows considering them as case study
can illuminate the multilingual dimensions of alternative narrative created with the help of signs such
as name of dishes, uses of spices etc. Alternative narrative can be broadly defined as an area of study
wherein the story line of the narrative is represented through a non-literary medium. The study
hypothesize that alternative narrative acts as sign within the linguistic landscape of current day India
and serve both informational and symbolic functions.

A sample of successful Indian Cookery Shows are selected from television channels like Food
Food, TLC or NDTV Good Times and analysed. The shows are conducted either in commonly used
language, i.e. Hindi or in the second official language, English. Through synthesis of multilingualism
as represented by discourse narratives created in these shows the paper postulates about the role of
socio-cultural context in the design and processing of the discourse representations. ‘Socio-Cultural
Context’ as represented during interactions in these Cookery Shows, is sometimes construed
intratextually and at other times intertextually. By using a deeper rapprochement facilitated through
socio-pragmatics and multilingual practices the study attempts to dispel the contextual complexities
at hand and so improve our understanding of the forms and functions of multimodal linguistic
landscaping.
The argument set forth is that narratives’ representations of discourse correspond to modes of
encoding contexts-of-use into narrative form itself. The multimodal linguistic landscape represented
in the Shows will reveal much about the Indian people, the languages spoken, what languages are
valued, and what de facto language policies are in place in India. A detailed examination of the various
discursive layers during the on-going interactions in the shows yield an enriched typology of
represented socio-cultural discourse of the current day India. Thus, it is shown how a new sociocultural typology which includes both the recipes prepared as well as the way they are presented in
turn suggests ways of ordering the different multimodal landscaping along a pragmatic continuum,
stretching from context-backgrounding to context- foregrounding of alternative narrative
representations.

Contact-Driven Multilingual Practices

Multimodal-Linguistic Landscaping in Food Narratives: A Case Study of Indian Cookery Shows

This paper provides an overall analysis of how multi-lingual writer like Amitav Ghosh write about emotion in his literary text, and emphasize on how multilingual authors display emotion/affect through use of literary multilingualism (affective markers) combined with writer style. Through use of multiple strategies, they reduces the limitations of interpretation of their texts. Furthermore, this paper highlighted the centrally sociolinguistic and cognitive dimensions of the relationships between multilingualism and emotion and how this is influenced by assumptions of Relevance Theory i.e. optimal relevance in a literary text. One should expect to find relationships between sociolinguistic diversity and affective expression for most authors in locally specific ways, whether multilingual or not. Such scholarship can then illuminate how the authors by using literary multilingualism through writer style and affective markers can shape emotions across various contexts in a literary text. Future research into multilingualism and emotion should continue to distinguish between how multilingual authors use linguistic forms to show feeling, and how they express about feeling in their created texts.

Advances in Language and Literary Studies

Stylistic Performance through Affective Marking: A Case of Multilingual Literary Discourse

Sus&#355;in&acirc;nd varia&#355;ia &#351;i libertatea &icirc;n limb&#259;: despre societate &#351;i apari&#355;ia argoului &icirc;n cinematograful indian

De-a lungul deceniilor, filozofii limbajului, precum &#351;i exper&#355;ii &icirc;n semantic&#259; &#351;i pragmatic&#259; ca John S EARLE (1971) au studiat cu deosebit interes toate tipurile de vorbire, dezvolt&acirc;nd &icirc;n acela&#351;i timp teorii despre &icirc;n&#355;elesuri; cu toate acestea, p&acirc;n&#259; &icirc;n prezent, principiile universale care ghideaz&#259; selec&#355;ia constructelor lin- gvistice precum argoul ne sunt &icirc;nc&#259; neclare. Lucrarea de fa&#355;&#259; este o analiz&#259; observa&#355;ional&#259; a gamei de argouri dintr-un domeniu specific, adic&#259; Bolly- wood-ul (din 2007 p&acirc;n&#259; &icirc;n anul curent), &#351;i &icirc;ncearc&#259; s&#259; examineze dimensiunea &#351;i rata schimb&#259;rii de limb&#259; &icirc;n ce prive&#351;te &#351;ansa &#351;i libertatea ei, a&#351;a cum este exercitat&#259; sau folosit&#259; de femeile din India. Industria de film de la Bollywood s-a concentrat mereu pe oameni &#351;i structurile sociale ale contemporaneit&#259;&#355;ii iar asta se vede &icirc;n limbajul &#351;i chiar &icirc;n titlurile filmelor. Un exemplu &icirc;l repre- zint&#259; dialogurile din Golmaal Returns, acolo unde scenariul prevede un discurs decent &icirc;n cazul personajului lui Raima Sen, &icirc;n vreme ce continuarea Golmaal 3 o impune pe Kareena Kapoor ca pe o agresoare senin&#259;. &Icirc;n plus, titluri cu for- mul&#259;ri argotice sunt de asemenea folosite, ca Lafangey Parindey &#537;i Kaminey, care sunt termeni foarte bine &icirc;nr&#259;d&#259;cina&#355;i &icirc;n discursul social. Accentul, &icirc;ns&#259;, se pune pe felul &icirc;n care tocmai aceast&#259; libertate &#351;i deschidere a emancipat lim- bajul femeilor din societatea indian&#259; de la prioritizarea unui vocabular moale, timid &#537;i ideal p&acirc;n&#259; la un lexic curajos &#351;i f&#259;r&#259; perdea, inclusiv cel argotic. Astfel, lucrarea postuleaz&#259; c&#259; libertatea limbajului folosit de femeile indiene a c&#259;p&#259;tat o anvergur&#259; mai larg&#259;, deschiz&acirc;nd drumul spre libertatea lor &icirc;n societatea in- dian&#259;.

ARGOTICA

Underpinning language variation and freedom: Society & emergence of slang in indian cinema

English Lingua Journal: Issues in English Studies

Reflecting Habermasian Public Sphere: A Study of Orality in New Media

Intercultural Communication is marked in literary discourse in numerous ways. Diasporic literary discourse representing intercultural communication uses pragma-cultural markers such as food and music as tools of intercultural communication. This paper attempts to examine intercultural communication foregrounding these pragma-cultural markers as represented in Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni's Queen of Dreams within the framework provided by Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 2002:249). This paper foregrounds the manner in which writers like Divakaruni deploy pragma-cultural markers to express multiple linguistic and cultural perspectives in their literary narratives, thereby portraying an amalgamation of America and India and facilitating intercultural communication which is a dialectical process, as on the one hand the "America" that is in the hearts, minds, and words of these writers shapes their expressions and on the other, their growing presence in terms of their literary output is changing the definition of American art and culture. 	extcopyright W. S. Maney & Son Ltd 2014.

Comparative American Studies An International Journal

Performing India in America through Pragma-Cultural Markers

Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies (JALS)

A Study of Contact Language Use in Amitav Ghosh's Sea of Poppies

Social Networks and Language Change are an important area of study in today’s world. The present study discusses the user friendly nature of Social Networks and how it is of interest to teachers and researchers as it exemplifies the Communicative Approach to the teaching of a language. This study posits that social networks have not only changed the individuals’ linguistic behaviour but also made it easy for him/her to acquire facility in a language in a relatively short span of time. The easy accessibility of these networks and their flexible language norms in diverse situations has initiated people into a language. In the context of India it has been seen that the fewer the language norms a person is asked to follow the better s/he conforms to the interaction norm in the virtual community at first and in the society subsequently. Ben Zimmer (2009. Web)) in his Virtual Thesaurus writes that language in the forums like Twitter and Facebook changed the word “friend into a transitive verb to describe the act of adding someone to an online list of acquaintances.” and that there are a list of un-verbs which are redefining the English word formation rules such as ‘unfollow a post’or ‘unlike an update’. Further the study explicates this phenomenon within a pragmatic framework which provides a set of rules governing conversation and the social use of language enabling a communicative approach to the teaching of language.

ELT Research Journal

Social Networks as Practical Classrooms: A Study of Language Change and its Impact on ELT

The present paper is an attempt to provide an explanation for this phenomenon by foregrounding the ‘mutual cognitive environment’which Shakespeare so skillfully and dexterously creates in his masterpiece The Tempest, and contends that this feature accounts for the sustained popularity, present day relevance and appeal of the play. This claim will be elucidated and established through an analysis of the drama within the framework of the concept of ‘mutual cognitive environment’(or shared background knowledge) as explicated by Sperber and Wilson in their discussion of Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 1995: 39). Further, the paper maintains that for the present day reader of The Tempest this environment is created due to the interaction of contextual assumptions which include knowledge of marginalised groups of people, of colonialism and racism, and of women as ‘constructed’in a patriarchal society. The analysis is motivated by the assumption that Shakespeare’s depiction of characters such as Ariel, Caliban and the only woman character Miranda, who may be viewed as marginalized, is so convincing that it creates a ‘mutual cognitive environment’thus facilitating the reader in arriving at an interpretation.

OF ADVANCED RESEARCH STUDIES

Deccan International Journal of Advanced Research Studies

The Relevance of Shakespeare: A Study of Subalternity in The Tempest

The present study of intercultural communication in literary discourse attempts to foreground the relevance of the study of Indian Diasporic literary texts by analyzing intercultural communication as represented in Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard and The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai. Desai is an Indian Diasporic writer who introduces words from the Indian languages in particular contexts, and predicates culture specific differences to convey her meaning to the reader. The study aims at providing a contextual framework to the field of literary discourse based upon the tools for analysis of Intercultural Communication enunciated by Allwood (1985). © Universiti Putra Malaysia Press.

A pragmatic study of intercultural communication in Kiran Desai

This paper examines the literary criticism which has burgeoned in the New Media, foregrounding the pattern change in the text-interpreting process with the help of Relevance Theory (Sperber and Wilson, 2002) and Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere (Habermas, 1962). According to Relevance Theory, the discourse initiator (writer) wants the discourse recipient (reader) to consider what is being communicated as the most relevant, which constitute" cognitive effects" and which may be applied for interpreting any communicative event. Thus the study contends that such a pragmatic approach enables us to critically engage with the reader’s behaviour facilitating literary study in the digital humanities and further helps in evaluating and determining the requirements of a reader in conjunction with the expectations of a writer. So with these literary forums, literature and literary criticism no longer exist in isolation as in earlier times. Their dissemination to a much wider public has given rise to a new media reader as well as critic. Furthermore, the paper posits that these literary forums may be identified as the" literary public sphere" of Habermas (1962).

Asiatic: IIUM Journal of English Language and Literature

Resurfacing of the Literary Public Sphere: Interpreting Pattern Change in the New Media

Although many readers and critics of the present era might consider Jane Austen's fictional writings to be outdated and clichéd, her work nevertheless retains an undying appeal. During the last decade of the twentieth century the English-speaking world has experienced an Austen renaissance as it has been treated to a number of film and television adaptations of her work. The reasons for viewers and readers enjoying and identifying with Austen's fiction are numerous. This paper contends that the 'mutual cognitive environment' which Jane Austen so skilfully and dexterously creates in her masterpiece Pride and Prejudice, accounts for its present day relevance and appeal. This claim will be elucidated and established through an analysis of the novel within the framework of the concept of a 'mutual cognitive environment' as explicated by Sperber and Wilson in their discussion of Relevance Theory (2002:249).

East West University

Revisiting Classics: Relevance of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice

Paradigmen in Der

10 Urjani Chakravarty (Indian Institute of Management, Indore, MP, India) Multimodal-Linguistic Landscaping in Food Narratives: A Case Study of Indian Cookery Shows Linguistic landscaping as a domain of study has been taking momentum slowly with scholars focusing on public signs from different settings and cultures. The requirement of such focus becomes relevant as through studying signs in the public space, a great deal of information can be inferred about a country. The term linguistic landscape was first time mentioned by R. Landry and R. Bourhis with the meaning “the language of public road signs, advertising billboards, street names, place names, commercial shop signs, and public signs on government buildings combines to form the LL of a given territory, region, or urban agglomeration”(1997, pp. 25).