Author: Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131718735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Learner’s Multilingual Dictionary: English-English-Kannada/Malayalam/Tamil/Telugu
Author: Publisher: Pearson Education India
ISBN: 9788131718735
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
Sati Kamale
Author: S U PaniyadiPublisher: Manipal Universal Press
ISBN: 938246087X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
This eponymous novel is centred on Kamale, who is an embodiment of wifely virtue. For fifteen long years Kamale lives the life of a widow to the outside world, nurturing the hopes of reuniting with the husband one day. Alone in the room, each night she wears her marks of a married woman with the dagger gifted by Umesha next to her. It could be seen as an exposition on the then existing indigenous discourse in India in the 19th century and early 20th century. Kamale, in her rigorous commitment and in retrieving her husband from “death”, is fashioned after Savithri in an intertextual reference to Mahabharata’s episode of “Satyavan and Savithri”. The novel might look conservative for the present-day reader, but it is a representative literary work of the time when Paniyadi, among many others, wanted to regain the independent status of the Tulu language which had somehow slipped out of its pedestal. Sati Kamale is a novel which seeks to pit a self-conscious nation against colonial attacks in the form of modern education and several reformist projects that educated Indians had taken a fancy for. S U Paniyady, a strong nationalist himself, makes no secret as to where his sympathies lie. The chief protagonist of the novel is a woman, who fiercely upholds wifely virtues even when she lives in a limbo of doubt that her husband could have been martyred. She spurns the demand for remarriage and insists on remaining steadfastly devoted to the memory of her husband, which finally helps her to recover him in the rarefied realm of the Himalayas, much in the same way the legendary Sati Savitri won back the life of Satyavan. Creation of this modern mythology serves a nationalist purpose of upholding the moral that our inner strength can alone protect us from infections from outside.
A Kannada-English Dictionary
Author: Ferdinand KittelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English language
Languages : en
Pages : 1816
Book Description
Parametric Studies in Malayalam Syntax
Author: K. A. JayaseelanPublisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788170239444
Category : Dravidian languages
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
The Republic of India
Author: Alan GledhillLanguage and Society in South Asia
Author: Michael C. ShapiroPublisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishe
ISBN: 9788120826076
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
During the past two decades there has been a significant amount of research and publication concerning the sociolinguistics of South Asian languages. Language and Society in South Asia is the first major attempt to assess the impact of this new literature. It exposits the methodological and theoretical assumptions of sociolinguistic descriptions of south Asian languages, and contrasts them with the assumptions of earlier characterizations of these languages. An important feature of this book is its detailed examination of numerous schools of linguistic analysis within which most past descriptive work on South Asian languages has been carried out. This is done in language accessible both to the professional linguist and to non-linguists interested in social aspects of language use in South Asia. Among the topics treated in this book are traditional taxonomies of South Asian languages, South Asia as a linguistic area, social dialectology, bi- and multilingualism in South Asia, pidginization, creolization, and South Asian English, ethnographic semantics, and the ethnography of speaking. The work also contains an extensive bibliography of the scholarly literature pertinent to the study of South Asian languages in their social contexts.
Dictionary of Languages
Author: Andrew DalbyPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1408102145
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 754
Book Description
Covering the political, social and historical background of each language, Dictionary of Languages offers a unique insight into human culture and communication. Every language with official status is included, as well as all those that have a written literature and 175 'minor' languages with special historical or anthropological interest. We see how, with the rapidly increasing uniformity of our culture as media's influence spreads, more languages have become extinct or are under threat of extinction. The text is highlighted by maps and charts of scripts, while proverbs, anecdotes and quotations reveal the features that make a language unique.
Tangkhul-English, Hindi dictionary
Author: S. ArokianathanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tangkhul language
Languages : en
Pages : 148
Book Description
The Central Institute of Indian Languages aims to develop Indian languages. It is entrusted with the responsibility of assisting the development of tribal and other minor languages. This text concerns itself with Tangkhul, which belongs to the Naga subgroup of the Tibeto-Burman sub family.
Understanding Language Change
Author: April M. S. McMahonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521446655
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
This textbook analyses changes from every area of grammar and addresses recent developments in socio-historical linguistics.
Author: Ferdinand Kittel