Problematizing Language Studies: Cultural, Theoretical and Applied Perspectives : Essays in Honour of Rama Kant Agnihotri

Contents Foreword Introduction I Cultural Perspective 1 Sanskritic vs Syncretic Sir William Jones and Indian Pluralism and PluralityMichael J Franklin 2 Braj Reinvented Some Colonial Approaches to Hindi DialectsArthur Dudney 3 The Language of Love A Study of the Amorous and Erotic Associations of UrduTariq Rahman 4 Himalayan Languages Hindi and English Contentment or containmentMahendra K Varma 5 English in India and the role of the Elite in the national projectAnnie Montaut 6 Has globalization given a new legitimacy to diversityParoo Nihalani 7 Hindi Urdu Hindustani Evolution of the language of a peopleShreesh Chaudhary 8 The Case for Hindustani RevisitedAyesha Kidwai 9 The Politics of MulticulturalismTanmoy Bhattacharya and Haobam Basantarani 10 Contextuality critical discourse analysis and structuration Theory Sociological basis for analyszing heavenly ornaments Bihishti ZewarS Imtiaz Hasnain 11 On Puri BoliBN Patnaik 12 On unearthing a civilizationRanjit Singh Rangila 13 From Margin to mainstream The growing domain of language switching and mixing in contemporary South African television dramaKay McCormick 14 Code Switching and the politics of NostalgiaRakesh M Bhatt II Theoretical Perspective 15 Confessions of a Minor morphologist Some remarks on morphological complexityRajendra Singh 16 The Hindi long vowel problem A substantivist approachProbal Dasgupta 17 Indian Languages as intonational phrase languagesCaroline Fery 18 More Freedom on the leftGisbert Fanselow 19 Morphosyntax of Hindi infinitivesRajesh Kumar 20 Compositionality in complex predicatesAchla M Raina 21 Limits to compositionality of meaning some Notes with reference to English and HindiRajneesh Arora 22 On the Nature of reason in the present-day academic researchPramod Pandey 23 Towards branding Indian linguistics A Linguistic destination nextShailendra Kumar Singh 24 Rough NotesUdaya Narayana Singh 25 How do I know that you are not a CBI Agent Examining the identity of researcher in sociolinguistic fieldworkRizwan Ahmad III Applied Perspective 26 Using the Mother Tongues for learning and teaching other tongues Theory and practiceAL Khanna 27 On the teaching of Indian language and literatures abroadOmkar N Koul 28 Teaching English to young learners How far have we come How Far Can We GoRama Mathew 29 Restructuring general English language curricula at the tertiary level issues and possibilitiesSR Prahlad 30 English at the Primary Level A Study of teaching vocabularyPanchanan Mohanty 31 Communicative language teaching and large classes Conflicts and convergenceMohammad Aslam 32 Process of learning ESL vs EFL A Study of Errors in acquisition vs learningVaishna Narang and Mi Yang Cha 33 Kashmiri-English Contact Some Phonological issuesAadil A Kak 34 Lexico-Semantic features of Indian pidgin EnglishPriya Hosali 35 Globalization and English Language in India An OverviewRaj Nath Bhat 36 The Study of lexical phrases among proficient users of EnglishAnju Sahgal Gupta and Madhu GurtuAs a mark of esteem and affection we bring this Festschrift to honor Rama Kant for his interests and work for the questions and concerns he has raised and for the subtle and not so subtle ways in which he has influenced and even altered out agenda The articles included in the Festschrift reflect the range of Rama Kant?s interests and report nearly all that is currently happening in Indian linguistics and language studies worldwide All contributions in this volume look at cultural theoretical and applied aspects of the problem of language studies Articles in the cultural section dwell upon issues that influence the form and use of language Issues pertaining to the theory of grammar in general and of syntax morphology or phonetics and phonology have been grouped together in the theoretical section Articles in the section on applied linguistics discuss the problems of language pedagogy language planning data bases etc Jacket 602 pp.…