LANGUAGE IN INDIA

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Volume 14:7 July 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
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         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
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Discourse Peculiarities of Anita Desai in Her Selected Novels

R. C. Vasuki, Ph.D. English

Abstract

Identifying an author’s peculiarity on a judgment scale of analytical study of her works is an attempt at recognising and justifying the individual writer’s creative originality. This paper focuses on this issue by taking into consideration the works of Anita Desai Cry, the Peacock and Fasting, Feasting.

Introduction

Discourse analysis develops an insight into how structure of words or words as speech utterances collectively communicate thought. It is the study of language used by members of the speech community. It looks at both language form and language functions. It identifies linguistic features that characterize different genres as well as social and cultural factors that aid in our interpretation and understanding of different texts and types of talk. An analysis of written text might include a study of topic development and cohesion across the sentences, while an analysis of spoken language focus on these aspects plus turn taking practices, opening and closing sequences of social encounters or narrative structure.

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Dr. R. C. Vasuki
Head, Department of English
A. P. C. Mahalaxmi College for Women
Tuticorin
Tamilnadu
India
rcvasuki@gmail.com
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