PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION- Literary and non-literary [Hardcover]

ABOUT THE BOOK: The book comprises eight independent studies, or Chapters, all woven together under a cohesive framework of inquiry, PATTERNS OF COMMUNICATION : literary and non-literary. Each Chapter deals with a distinctive pattern of (human) communication, with focus on either literary or non-literary texts. Even as each Chapter would seem diverse and ‘autonomous’ by themselves because of their focused concern with a certain type of text and discrete models of discussion, they all reflect a core concern with variegated matrix of (human) communication per se, whether linguistic, pragmatic, semiotic, or an admixture of all of these. The format of the book is interdisciplinary that follows an eclectic model of inquiry, spanning from literature to linguistics (linguistic-stylistics), covering literary as well as non-literary texts, and pragmatics on to semiotics. The studies, in keeping with their varied points of theoretical orientation, discuss both literary and non-literary textsas also ‘native’ and non-native varieties of English.Further, the dynamics of nativization of English at the hands of those who own it as a second language or foreign language is yet another major dimension of its focused concern.In the process, the studies also explore a contrastive pattern of communication, centered on both the dynamics of Indianization of English in India as well as that of nativization of English in Yemen, as well as its reverse process, precisely the dynamics of Englishizationin India across an umbrella spectrum of Indian languages, or, pan- Indian speech. The ambit of discussion in the book thus ranges from texts from British English literature to non-literary texts, from Indian English, the variety of English that functions as a Second Language of the country, to Yemeni English, where English is used as a Foreign Language of the country, both in everyday-language situation. The dynamic pattern of media communication in Englishis also explored at length in both Indian and Yemeni contexts of situation.