Applied linguistics

Salman Rushdie’s Midnight's Children significantly shaped the course of Indian writing in English. This great work of art gave Rushdie a prominent position in the literary canon. He got a definite place in the readers‟ heart. Midnight's Children is a typical example of a postcolonial novel that integrates the elements of magic realism into it. The author‟s intentional use of magic realism helps in bringing out the surreal and unreal dimensions of the Indian subcontinent and thereby making it a…

T.S. ELIOT’S THOUGHTS IN HIS WRITINGS ARE CLEAR MIRROR OF MODERN LIFE Dr. Basappa Y. Bangari Associate Professor Head Department of Indian and Foreign Languages Garden City University Bengaluru-560049, Karnataka, India bangari163@gmail.com +919448377922 Abstract: This paper attempted to understand influence of modern life on Eliot’s thoughts and writings. Therefore Eliot’s thoughts in his writings are considered as a clear mirror of modern life. After reading Miss Weston’s book “From Ritual to…

SECTION A A1. Definition: Communication is imparting or exchanging of information by speaking, writing or using some other medium. Communication process:  Sender: The person who intends to convey the message with the intention of passing information and ideas to others is known as sender or communicator.  Ideas: this is the subject matter of the communication. This may be an opinion, attitude, feeling, views, orders, or suggestions.  Encoding: The subject matter further…

to create mental picture for the reader. With the help of imagery a reader can easily visualize the author’s writings. Sometimes Coleridge draws a pictorial picture by the aspirate of few words. The poem is a vivid picture of nature. The poet has applied colorful words in order to give an exhaustive image of nature. In the beginning, the description of mariner with ‘grey beard’ ‘glittering eye’ and ‘skinny hand’ presents a clear image of an old and wise man.…

1.Introduction What is the most effective way of learning a new language? Every language learner has their own study experience from different back ground. They have different purposes and motivation. The motivation is most important develop language knowledge, a motivated person would not quit at the first mistake. From my own experience, I have already had a challenge to learn English and had the opportunity to learn Italian for 5 weeks. The learning process of Italian was more mindful; I…

The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy uses different cultural references that not everyone might understand. The cultural context necessary to understand what Roy writes about, makes it interesting to study how two different readers could interpret parts of The God of Small Things differently. This essay will focus on how a native Hindu practising Indian vs a western reader may interpret certain sections of the novel. Roy’s use of stylistic devices when talking about the cultural aspects, can…

ABSTRACT Cultural transition is one of the most common subjects dealt in literature. It is not always depicted explicitly and so in order to locate them discourse needs special reading. Through such a reading, from a certain point of view, we find John Millington Synge showing peasant culture fractured by modernity. In his one act play, Riders to the Sea, J. M. Synge presents us a folk culture in transition, for the play deals not only with deaths or grief about the losses but also with the…

extremely critical and sarcasm. This gives the audience a sense of dedication. However, his research mainly focuses on characters' fate, sociolinguistics, and translations. From the perspective of linguistics, especially the theory of speech act, there is relatively little research on the analysis of the linguistic features of the drama “The Flower Girl”. The “Flowers of Flowers” uses a large number of irony techniques to provide a rich source for this research. Therefore, the irony of verbal…

Human personality naturally changes over time. Sometimes it is sudden but more often it is a gradual change. Character development is practically a must have of good fictional narrative writing. It usually happens gradually as it does in nature to make the writing realistic but Roald Dahl uses striking changes in character personality to create an incredibly intriguing character. Mary Maloney in the short story “Lamb to the Slaughter” by Roald Dahl experiences major, instantaneous…

Tiffany Francis March 7, 2018 English Fences Questions Prompt 3. Balance the dualistic nature of the Troy Maxon character. In the book “Fences” Troy presented two characteristics based on how he was feeling at the moment. During the book Troy showed he was a responsible man who placed his priorities first but he also proved he was a very insincere man. Once he did what he was supposed to as a man he doubted his child and betrayed his wife. Troy was responsible because he…