• ISBN13: 9788126903504
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: English Literature
• Publisher: Atlantic Publishers & Distributors (P) Ltd
• Publisher Imprint: Atlantic
• Publication Date: May 26, 2012
• Pages: 264
• Original Price: INR 650.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 300 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): General

The importance of English both as a link language, a means of communication and as a medium of instruction has been steadily growing since Independence, so that the total number of learners of English in India today would easily exceed the total populations of many countries of Europe. Moreover, we have now more speakers of English in India than in Britain. Learning a language is different from learning about a language, but to acquire proficiency in a language at all the levels of listening, speaking, reading and writing, and an ability to express both functional and conceptual meaning it is not enough to know the language. However, since natural language use is richly variegated it is only when a good command of the language has been acquired that the learner can proceed to develop his personal linguistic repertoire through a knowledge of how a language works. A student of literature must also know how to apply the insights of linguistics to the appreciation of literature. Thirty essays that constitute this volume explore in-depth various aspects of the English language, English Language Teaching, functional, notional and communicative approaches to material production and syllabus design, different kinds of English, different uses of English in literary works, application of linguistic theories to the study of literature, translation and semantics. Teachers and students who are engaged in teaching/learning the English language, ELT, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics will find the book extremely valuable and anybody interested in these area will also find the book quite interesting.

Mohit K. Ray, a full Professor since 1982, is one of the senior-most Professors in the country. He has published three books and a large number of research papers in scholarly journals in India and abroad, which reflect his wide range of scholarship including Criticism, Comparative Literature, New Literatures, Canonical Literature, Comparative Poetics and Translation Studies. Professor Ray has attended and chaired sessions as an invited participant in many international Conferences, Seminars, and Colloquia held in different parts of the globe—England, France, Portugal, Austria, Finland, Estonia, America, Canada, Japan, Hong Kong, etc. Professor Ray has studied several languages including Latin, Sanskrit, Arabic, French, German, etc. He has edited several anthologies of critical studies, and edits three research journals. Professor Ray is a distinguished member of many international bodies including Association Internationale de Littérature Compareé, Paris, and Association Internationale des Critiques Littéraires, Paris. Professor Ray had also done a course in ELT at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, University of Reading, U.K.

• 1. The Life and Death of Languages
• –AMIYA BASU
• 2. The English Language
• –MALLIKARJUN PATIL
• 3. English in Beginnings
• –SHAILENDRA KUMAR MUKUL
• 4. Elizabethan Prose: A Note on Its Contribution to the Growth of English Prose
• –SHARAD RAJIMWALE
• 5. Between the Metro & Municipality: Contemporary Teaching of English Literature in India
• –AVADHESH KUMAR SINGH
• 6. Babu English and Butler English
• –S. JAGADISAN and S. IMTIAZ ALI
• 7. The Acceptability of American English in India
• –AMAR NATH JHA
• 8. Indian Variety of English: A Socio-Linguistic Study
• –JAYDEEP SARANGI
• 9. Teaching of English in India: Problems and Prospects
• –V.K. JAIN
• 10. Innovation in ELT and Instructional Materials: An Indian Context
• –SANDHYA RANI SAHOO
• 11. Instructional Materials: A Social Perspective
• –P. BHASKARAN NAIR
• 12. Adapting Instructional Materials for Task-based Language Classrooms
• –P. BHASKARAN NAIR
• 13. Relevance of English Language Teaching (ELT) in Professional Education
• –MEENAKSHI RAMAN
• 14. Teaching the Playtext in the Classroom Versus Watching its Performance: Macbeth as a Case Study
• –PRAKASH CHANDRA PRADHAN
• 15. Classroom Experiences of Teaching Paradise Lost I
• –SHUBHA TIWARI
• 16. The Importance of Learner’s Perception in the
• Language Teaching/Learning Process
• –BENSON AGARWARKER
• 17. Second Language Acquisition: A Socio-Psychological Perspective
• –PRATIBHA GUPTA
• 18. Is Learning a Number of Languages a Load?
• –K. BALACHANDRAN
• 19. Acquiring English: Mother Tongue Must Have a Role
• –R.P. SINGH
• 20. Teaching of English: Need for a New Agenda
• –DIPAK J. BARUAH
• 21. Comprehension
• –V.K. JAIN
• 22. Rushdie’s Use of Language in Midnight’s Children
• –SISIR KUMAR CHATTERJEE
• 23. The Linguistic Deviations in The God of Small Things and the Legacy of Joyce
• –SANTOSH CHAKRABARTI
• 24. Linguistic Deviations in Translation
• –MUKTA MAHAJAN
• 25. Rasa, Dhvani and Auchitya in the Indian and the Western Poetics
• –NANDINI SAHU
• 26. ‘Inscape’ and the Theory of Dhvani
• –RAMA KUNDU
• 27. Sanskrit Grammar and Linguistics
• –AMAR NATH JHA
• 28. Structuralism and Structuralist Literary Theory
• –MADAN M. SARMA
• 29. Teaching of Language and Literature in Ancient India
• –R.S. PATHAK
• 30. Philosophy of Language
• –BHASKAR ROY BARMAN
• Contributors