Why Is Aravind Adiga And Mohsin Hamid?

In the field of Modern Languages and Linguistics, words are of great importance. A language’s phonology (study of how sounds are organized and used), morphology (study of the form and structure of words), syntax (study of the rules that govern sentence structure), semantics (study of meaning of words, sentences, and expressions), pragmatics (study of aspects of meaning and language use and context), and phonetics (study of human speech sounds) all play an important part in everyday life. These have a major impact in understanding the intent of what is spoken or heard. Due to the importance of communication, literary elements such as metaphors (which are defined as a figure of speech in which a word or phrase

Writer’s who create and write in the form of Mass Media play an immense role in producing a purpose for its target audience such as being entertained, informed or influenced by. Each form of Mass Media, for example in written form such as magazine articles, contain certain forms of linguistics to suit the context of the situation. In this study, two magazine articles, Everybody has a story, by Lucy Corry of Frankie Magazine and Yes, she can, Julia Bishop, by Sophie Tedmanson appearing in Vogue magazine will be compared and contrasted to determine the links and differences between the two articles.

Frye begins by exploring the relation of language and literature. “What is the relation of English as the mother tongue to English as a literature?” he asks (p. 16), and before he can give an answer, he has to explain why people use words. He identifies three different uses of language, which he also terms types or levels of language.

Descriptive grammar deals 2. Words are classified in part-of-speech categories according to 3. Functional words are 4. Open class words are 5. According to their function verbs can be 6.

Genre analysis is an attempt to explain why members of specific discourse communities employ different and special ways of using language. Sociocultural aspects of language and existing differences among the contexts in which a language is used may, to some extent, answer this question. In addition, cognitive strategies applied by the speakers or writers may also play a role since the members of each language community use different strategies to achieve their desired goals (Bhatia, 1996). According to a definition given by Martin (1985), "genres are how things get done, when language is used to accomplish them". As implicitly found in this definition, any genre analysis must be a detailed description of linguistic elementsof a specific

There are two fundamental principles in syntax. One refers to the fact that there are certain relationships between the words of a Noun Phrase, where one word, the head, controls the other words, the dependants. The head may have one or more dependants or may have no dependants at all. The second idea is related to phrases, groups of interrelated words that generally bring together heads and their

The Language Wars have been waged in the realm of English Literature, Language and Linguistics for years. Both sides of the argument are staunch believers in their position, but are more than willing to concede points to the other sides’ favour. In Bryan A. Garner’s essay, “Making Peace in the Language Wars”, he describes himself as a ‘descriptive prescriber’ (Garner, Making Peace in the Language Wars 2008, 270), and offers a truce that fulfils both sides of the argument as the crux of his essay. While the separate sides of the argument are relatively easy to define, it seems that no one sticks to them religiously, and the argument is between individuals fighting over individual points. The two sides are that of the descriptivist and that

Language is a typically human phenomenon. In moving from the 'natural being' of animal existence to the 'cultural being' of human existence, language plays the decisive role. Language gives a sense of identity to an individual as well as a social group and, in the process, creates multiple identities. The maintenance, merger, clash and change in identities based on and reflected in the language change has prompted linguists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and political scientists to study language in its multifarious dimensions. Since economic and societal planning have to, of necessity, take into account the context of planning, there is no wonder that worldwide

"At their feet the river appeared a deathly black hue.  Some hidden factory set up a yellow glare, that lit for a moment the waters lapping

Key features of language include its words and their sub structures such as morphemes, graphemes and syllables at the writing level as well as reading or speaking, words, their meanings and contexts in which the words get spoken or read. Language has to be interpreted as a whole, and not just as the specific word. There must be an explicit pattern or structure. In order for language to be understood correctly, the meaning of words must be arranged in a given context. This is what constructs language; even though words are arbitrary themselves, in order to integrate as a language, they must be used in the appropriate context. This pre-established cultural context is what will enable effective communication. (Daniel Willingham, 2007, p. 1).

Language lovers can expect several hours of pleasure when reading Guy Deutscher 's book Through the language glass: Why the world looks different in other language. Deutscher, linguist and honorary research fellow at the University of Manchester, takes the readers on a journey through words, history and cultures to discover the relationship among language, culture and mind. The broad perspective of ‘Holy Trinity ' in the book allows readers to examine theories, assumptions and stereotypes regarding how the language is affected and affects the way people who speak different languages perceive the world. Deutscher discusses three issues through language 's perspective: colors, spatial coordinates and grammatical gender while he makes sure to present different points of view about the subject. However, during the book, Deutscher does not go as a blind after theories, fashions or big names, such as Noam Chomsky or Benjamin Lee Whorf and presents his viewpoint based on studies and personal insights. As the plot progresses, Deutscher concludes that the language in fact is influenced from culture and nature, but none have enjoyed absolute hegemony; and language affects the thinking habits and not just on linguistic information.

In the article, “Language Use in West Indian Literature” written by Maureen Warner-Lewis, language encompasses a word system of morphology, semantics, syntax,

From a conceptual point of view, discourse analysis in international relations has outlined a common set of standards for the other fields of language and social sciences. Discourse is a rather new field of analysis in the world of social research, and it does not yet have a precise and compact theoretical body. Accordingly, discourse analysis has to rely on the practices and concepts taken from other fields such as sociology, semantics, psychology, linguistics etc. Due to its vast source of knowledge, discourse has analytical richness in its field. In the study of international relations, three types of discursive approaches are considered, which are - descriptive approaches, autonomous approaches, and functionalist approaches. Autonomous approaches have no established relations with each other, but separately they provide a significant contribution to the study of discourse (Obeng and Hartford). The descriptive analysis approaches are a set of explanatory perspectives that are based on language and relevant fields. This method includes a grammatical style, which is concerned with understanding how words and sentences are formed. The descriptive method can be subdivided into three different practices of grammar and linguistics, which are - Morphology, phonology, and syntax. A descriptive methodology is a stylistic approach to grammar that is mainly used in poetry. This approach aids discourse analysis by specifying the suitability of a particular discourse to a specific

Previous studies relevant and helpful to the present study on reduplication as the translation equivalence of English lexicons in Indonesian are reviewed below.

Specialists in descriptive grammar (linguists) examine the principles and patterns that underlie the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences. In contrast, prescriptive