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Conceptual Investigation of the Global Significance of English Language: A Contextual Study with Special Reference to India
Get PDFThe English language makes the speakers part of the global community. For this reason, no one can claim that English is his own language. It has been seamlessly measured to be the first global as well as comprehensive language with the feasibility of communication. It has become part and parcel of every existing arena of activities and professions. The English language has shown its power in several aspects so it has been adopted as the language of global communication, trade, education, science, aviation, medicine, information technology, entertainment, research, international relations, and other human affairs. Proper acquaintance and efficacy of the English language have become one of the prerequisites of every professional person in the globalized modern age. Most countries have their own native and instinctive languages but for so many activities English is being given preferable positions. Various opportunities are open to those who are efficient in this language. It has the competence to build friendships, economic relationships, social upliftment, advance learning opportunities, and cultural ties as well as communicate thoughts and ideas. In varieties of cultures and activities, it has a very significant role. Many people have a firm belief that there is such a thing as World English but they do not seem to realize that acknowledging it has comprehensive consequences. A language learner may be more sensitive to a few of these effects than others in the near future. We can only make learned estimates about what will happen in the future at this point. World English creates the most desired boarding pass to universalism and global commodity as well as communication. India as a developing country has to take up so many things into consideration. In India, there are hundreds of regional languages and more than twenty languages recognized in its constitution. In spite of having so many languages, the Indian government has adopted the English language as a second language for official activities. Various opportunities are being generated with the help of the English language. The present research article discusses the status of English as a language from a global perspective as well as in the Indian context. The English language became a global language owing to its quality of adaptation, borrowings, feasibility, assimilation, and flexibility
Social and Environmental concerns in the Poetry of Biplab Majumdar: A Critical Evaluation
Get PDFThe lineage of Indian English poetry is very large. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio is considered the first in the sequence of Indian English poetry. There are several remarkable poets like Nissim Ezekeil, Toru Dutta, Sarojini Naidu, Rabindranath Tagore, Shri Aurobindo. A.K. Ramanujan, Dom Moreas, R. Parthaswamy, Jayant Mahapatra, Kamala Das, Keki N. Daruwalla, A. K. Mahrortra, Arun Kolatkar, Vikram Seth and so many who have filled literature with thought of Indian sensibility, emotion and mysticism. Vikram Seth is a poet and novelist of great eminence. He was born in Kolkata, India. His poetic sensibility suits to the Indian canons of poetry. His intention of writing poetry is to reform society and environment for better future of humanity. Mappings (1980), The Humble Administrator’s Garden (1985), All You Who Sleep Tonight (1990), Beastly Tales (1991), Three Chinese Poets (1992), The Frog and the Nightingale (1994) are some of poetic collections of Seth. They created a new constellation and stream in the world literature with their creativity and notions. There is a long list of contemporary poets who are writing poems about their milieu culture and environment. O. P. Bhatnager, Maha Nand Sharma, Sri Niwas Ramaswami, Sunil Sharma, Jaydeep Sarangi, Ramesh Chandra Dwivedi Syed Ameeruddin, and several others are poets of great eminence. They are writing on numerous subjects like mysticism, humanity, environment, pollution, corruption, and so many subjects which are prevailing in this world
Contemporary Elements in the Poetry of Vihang A Naik: An Outlook
Get PDFVihang A. Naik is an award winning poet of India writing in English and Gujrati. His poems have been published and anthologize worldwide. His collections of poems are well appraised by academicians and researchers. Making A Poem, City Times and Other Poems, and Poetry Manifesto are some of his well known and published poetic collections by him. Most of his poems have empirical experience. He has deep love towards nature and environment. Without proper sensibility towards life one cannot write deeply. Vihang doesn’t lack this attitude
Indianness in the Poetry of Biplab Majumdar
Get PDFLiterature is a colossal expression of thoughts emotions and different kinds of behaviours of the society in which it is written. Every society has its own feelings, ideas, value system, myths, history, religion, education system, culture, and tradition. Indianness is a concept and feeling like Americanness and Africanness. It is a kind of conceptual opulence found in literature of India in different languages. It is influenced by the religious background, cultural practices, philosophic ideas, attitudes of the society, myths, history, books, and writers of the time. India is a country full of varieties and vastness in the matter of geography and spirituality, religion and history
Didactic Tone in the Poetry of Biplab Majumdar: A Critical Insight
Get PDFBiplab Majumdar is a poet of great eminence and sensibility. Didacticism is one of the all pervasive visions of his poetic imagination. Didactic literature has contents of instruction, information, motivation, teachings of morality, entertainment, and educational reform. He is analogous to Alexander pope, Matthew Arnold, Vishnu Sharma, Evelyn Waugh, Rudyard Kipling, Kazuyosi Ikeda, R. C. Dwivedi, Vihang K Naik, Jaydeep Sarangi, Syed Ameeruddin, Robert Frost, John Bunyan, and S. C. Dwivedi. Majumadar is a great poet and social reformer. His poetic vision is to reform social, political, moral, religious, and educational evils and corruption. Majumdar has been serving humanity for a long time. His poetic imagination has moral and emotional values. He never writes to get popularity but writers to instruct, entertain, and encourage to his readers. These are some of writers who took poetry as vehicle of teaching and instruction
Environmental Concern in the Poetry of Syed Ameeruddin
Get PDFIn the process of modernization human beings are using environment and natural resources to fulfill their needs. In this process our environment and its elements are being used recklessly and without proper concern. Due to unethical ravishment of physical nature and environment different kinds of problems have emerged before human beings. Different kinds of diseases are spreading time and again. Taking these problems as serious issue contemporary thinkers have started a kind of campaign to make people aware of the facts that knowingly or unknowingly we are responsible for these distressing issues. Now the deep concern of human beings is how to save our fragile world from ecological disaster. Global warming, pollution, Ozone depletion and deforestation are increasing day by day. Worldwide environmental awareness is being created by academicians, thinkers, politicians and environmentalists to protect and preserve eco system by living more and more eco-friendly and to bring about environmental conservation through protection of flora and fauna by providing clean energy and sustainable development. Today world peace is threatened not only by warfare conflicts but also by lack of due respect for nature and its elements by its irresponsible and reckless exploitation and destruction. During 20th century different movements started to make us aware of some facts regarding disturbances in the environment. It has been in our sensibility to understand and respect nature and its parts since the dawn of human existence but it was not studied till 1960’s
Environmental, Cultural and Humanistic Perspectives in the Poetry of Robert Frost, Kazuyosi Ikeda and Syed Ameeruddin
Get PDFThe modern world has witnessed radical changes in all sorts of discourses. Different kinds of changes in environment, culture and humanistic approach have brought relevant dimensions in literature. The points are quite interesting, contemporary, burning and have masculine, vital and thought-provoking concerns. Everyone is running after ease and comfort forgetting the importance of nature and environment. This can be reiterated in the words of William Wordsworth that getting and spending we are busy in wasting our powers, health, knowledge, wisdom, human feelings. Further, he says that we have lost all our sensibilities to realize the relevance and grateful towards nature. Actually, we do not even realize the importance of nature in our life. The paper explores the concept of environmental, cultural and humanistic concerns in the poetry of Robert Frost, Kazuyosi Ikeda and Syed Ameeruddin
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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