Archana Hooda Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, Govt. College Bahadurgarh(Haryana). & Ms. Shikha Assistant Professor, Dept. of English, MKJK College Rohtak(Haryana) India. The term ‘Diaspora’ which was originally used for the Jewish dispersion from their native land has connotations of expatriates, exiles, immigrants, political refugees etc. This phenomena of migration and dispersion is not new…
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Mirror with a Memory
Antonia Alexandra Klimenko 6 rue Cesar Franck 75015, Paris, France Light enters me from both directions; I cannot look the other way– my eyes—two flashing cameras—are everywhere. Fish float on them; birds and butterflies swim deep in their reflection. The moon flickers under their fixed lens. Now, she is two. Memories ooze from burnt out…
Diagnosing Oral Efficiency of L2 Learners of Engineering Students
L. Amutha Part Time Scholar Department of Linguistics Bharathiyar University Coimbatore 641046 & Dr. P. Selvakumar Associate Professor Department of Linguistics Bharathiyar university Coimbatore 641046 Abstract The case study is experimented to diagnose how the use of L2, as the medium of instruction in engineering colleges, has affected the learners’ oral proficiency. The study is…
Politics and Translation
Aditya Kumar Panda academic Consultant National Translation Mission Central Institute of Indian Languages Mysore,India To study the political forces behind the translation and its process has been one of the thrust areas in the field of Translation Studies .There is always a motivation behind a translation and its construction of meaning. This motivation may be…
Dooars Tea Tribals’ Diasporic Identity
Abu Siddik Assistant Professor Department of English Falakata College, Falakata, Jalpaiguri, West Bengal, India. Pin: 735211 The term ‘Diaspora’ has a catastrophic origin. It derives from a Greek word meaning dispersion and it presumes that there exists a homeland to which the diaspora will eventually return (Tatla xviii).1 And the term is often used by historians…
Sylvia Plath: of Post-Colonial Time, Space and ‘other’
Yajnaseni Mukherjee Assistant Professor School of Humanities Schools of Technology KIIT University Bhubaneswar, Odisha-751024. The poetry of Sylvia Plath has often been labeled as ‘confessional’. Slapped with this label, the critics have not deigned to look beyond the obvious. A series of quotations and explanations at the beginning of the paper will justify the statement….
Communication Breakdown : A Pragmatics Problem
Meenakshi Harraw Verma “Communication works for those who work for it.” John Powell. The statement suggests that communication, in spite of being a natural activity, encompass a lot to be learnt. It is rightly said that it takes only two years to learn how to ‘speak’ but a lifetime to learn ‘what to speak’. Communication…
Western Aesthetics in Sri Aurobindo’s Criticism
Dr. K. Ujjwala Associate Prof of English K. L. University, Vijayawada Andhra Pradesh, India The western aesthetics was developed in ancient Greece in relation to drama and transposed to other literary categories. This is the earliest or Hellenic phase of criticism which was soon followed by Graeco-Roman phase. The poetic mind of Greece and Rome…
Assimilation or Elimination of Diasporic Sensibilities: Rushdie’s Hypothesis
Dr. Janmejay Kumar Tiwari University of Allahabad, Allahabad There is a substantial difference between the term diaspora of the third century B.C. and that of twentieth and twenty-first century diaspora. The term has been metamorphosed into a concept, a theory. In earlier centuries diaspora meant only “a dislocation from the nation-state or geographical location of…
Towards Developing Pragmatic Competence
R.S.A.Susikaran One of the aims of teaching language is the development of communicative competence in the user of the language. This is truer in the context of teaching English as second language in the pan Indian, multilingual, pluralistic context in country. The English language has assumed a larger role in the context of globalization and…