This book is an earnest endeavour to bring about a reconciliation between the literature of the Indian Renaissance and its dynamic social milieu. It proposes to engage in the nuanced reading of some of the most controversial novels of the Colonial Indi...
H. P. Lovecraft’s stories concentrate on the unknown, a primary anomaly not unlike those we may find in scientific discourse. The texts are utterly ambiguous and advocate a paradox where knowledge is both successful and dysfunctional. At the edges of c...
In the words of Wole Soyinka as quoted by Florence Stratton “vision is eternally of man's own creation,women's function is one of collaboration in man's vision(51).In a similar vein Emecheta's Nnu Ego finally realizes that it is a man's world which wom...
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”. With these words Howard Philips Lovecraft begins “The Supernatural Horror in Literature”. I contend that the importance Lovecraft a...
This study examines the language of humor in radio advertisements. The objectives are: a) examine and identify the language of humor in radio advertisements. b) investigate and distinguish the different linguistics techniques in radio advertisements. T...
В монографии рассматриваются различные аспекты лингвистического описания категорий "Своего" и "Чужого" на материале фраземики русского языка. В аспекте фразеологической семантики особое значение играет рассмотрение категории «Своего» / «Чужого» как (А)...
As human beings we always tend to see certain patterns and doing so eventually becomes our habit. A very recent example would be, now while reading a computer document using a certain font, a sudden change of the font creates disturbance. As a result a...
God gave us two ears but only one mouth. This fact highlights the importance of listening in our lives and signifies its intricacy and complexities involved in learning it when it comes to mastering listening as a skill in a foreign or second language....
The primary focus of the book is to present methods Urdu speakers use to display their affiliation and agreement with the other-speaker through variant forms of repetitions. The presence and absence of acknowledgment tokens with repetition effects its ...
Quality teachers are one of the best determinants of student achievement. Factors like teacher development, teachers' ability, and teachers' experiences account for students’ achievement than most other factors. This study intends to show how Reflectin...