LANGUAGE IN INDIA

Strength for Today and Bright Hope for Tomorrow

Volume 12 : 9 September 2012
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.
Assistant Managing Editor: Swarna Thirumalai, M.A.

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Looking at Assamese Journalistic Language vis-à-vis
the Linguistic Style - A Bird’s Eye-view

Dinee Samad, M.A.

Introduction

The linguistic evolution requires the people’s urge to adapt language. The newspaper, representing a sub-variety of language, occupies a special place in our day-to-day information about the happenings around us. While bringing about a comparison of different genres it is found that the journalistic language has its own style and manner of presenting the news reports, informal articles, etc., in an organized way. Not only does it throw light upon the happenings of the surroundings as well as of the world, but also bears evidence to a variety of structure and style of language it is written in. Here, we would focus upon the developmental stages vis-à-vis the linguistic changes of Assamese newspapers since their inception.

Assamese Journalism

Assamese journalism started its onward march in the first half of the 20th century. It has now achieved a stage where it is interesting to study how language in its written form (which is basically meant to inform) imparts knowledge and entertains people on a day-to-day basis, has developed a style of its own. In fact, newspapers evolving in different periods of history also serve as authentic documents of the various stages of language development, in terms of style, word- usage, etc. The journey from Orunodoi (Sunrise) till today would reveal how Assamese journalism has enriched itself with a good number of newspapers. It is also equally important, at the same time, to investigate the level of change and its development in relation to other national newspapers.

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Dinee Samad, M.A.
Resource Person, Central Institute of Indian Languages (CIIL)
c/o North Eastern Regional Language Centre
Bongaon, Majhipara
Beltola College Road, Beltola, Guwahati-28, Assam
India
dineesamad@gmail.com
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