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About the Author: Abirlal Mukherjee

Assistant Professor (Amity University), Digital Humanist
Ph.D in English (GITAM, India), M.A. and B.A. in English (B.C.C., B.K.U, India), P.G.D.E. -I by Research (B.C.U, UK), TESOL Prof. Certification (Arizona State University, USA)

Founder, Chair of the Secretaries of University Learner, India School on Internet Governance Fellow 2024, IIM-B, Member of Internet Society, Bangalore, Internal Complaints Committee Member, GITAM Deemed to be University, Bengaluru, Teach for India Fellow 2023 and Fellowship Recruitment Committee, Delhi

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  • Nature of Language
    • Language in spoken and written modes
    • Language as text—philological and literary notions (norm, purity)
    • Language as cultural heritage—codification, knowledge transmission
    • Language and social identity
    • Language as an object: autonomy, structure, units
    • Design features of language
    • Writing systems: alphabetic, syllabic, logographic, sign language
    • Language faculty and linguistic competence
  • Approaches to Language Study
    • Ancient Indian and Greco-Roman approaches
    • Semiotic approach
    • Language as social behavior and communication (emotive, conative, referential, poetic, metalinguistic, phatic)
    • Language as a cognitive system; culture and thought (Linguistic Relativity)
    • Saussurean dichotomies
  • Language Analysis
    • Hierarchy of levels: phonetic, morphological, syntactic, semantic/pragmatic
    • Contrast, complementation, -emic and -etic categories
    • Rule notion; description vs explanation
  • Linguistics and Other Fields
    • Philosophy, Anthropology, Sociology, Neurology, etc.
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