LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 14:3 March 2014
ISSN 1930-2940

Managing Editor: M. S. Thirumalai, Ph.D.
Editors: B. Mallikarjun, Ph.D.
         Sam Mohanlal, Ph.D.
         B. A. Sharada, Ph.D.
         A. R. Fatihi, Ph.D.
         Lakhan Gusain, Ph.D.
         Jennifer Marie Bayer, Ph.D.
         S. M. Ravichandran, Ph.D.
         G. Baskaran, Ph.D.
         L. Ramamoorthy, Ph.D.
         C. Subburaman, Ph.D. (Economics)
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Language: A Mirror or a Mirage?

Dr. Nazia Hasan, NET (UGC) and Ph.D. (English)

Names of Problems

When Robert Young as the editor of Untying the Text: A Post-Structuralist Reader refers to Jacques Lacan, Derrida, and Michael Foucault in the Introduction of the book, he argues that these are the names of problems and not the authors of doctrines (1981: 02)! Very few can be so candidly revealing about the new canons of our present world when “firing the canon” makes the best intellectual indulgence! But this accusatory finger towards Derrida and his group does point to the suspicion of a particular group of people. People, who believe that language has been robbed of its crowning glory, the marvelous and splendid wealth of profundity- and beauty that it used to possess and boast of in the good old days... Today that fortified entity called language has been tarnished and demolished to an elusive, meaningless structure.

Euphemisms No Longer Entertained

The authors mentioned above (or theorists, because the word ‘author’ itself has been the butt of attack for quite some time, and is an obsolete term in the arena of literary theory) or theorists like Barthes, Lacan, Derrida, Foucault and Kristeva contributed extensively to this transition from a composed, universal, modernist world of liberty, equality and fraternity to a post-modernist phase where euphemisms are no longer entertained and the majority advocate the right to question.

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Dr. Nazia Hasan, NET (UGC) and Ph.D. (English)
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