International Journal of Linguistics Language and Literature (IJLLL)
The International Journal of Linguistics Language and Literature (IJLLL) is a renowned platform dedicated to fostering meaningful discussions on the study of language and literature. Committed to fostering academic excellence and fostering interdisciplinary research, the journal offers a platform for scholars, researchers, and educators to delve into the most recent theories, methodologies, and discoveries in the field. We are proud to offer a comprehensive range of articles that delve into various aspects of language and literature. Our journal covers topics such as phonetics, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, stylistics, literary theory, cultural studies, and translation studies. We aim to have a profound influence on the worldwide advancement and comprehension of language and literature through the provision of a platform for outstanding research and scholarship. The International Journal of Linguistics Language and Literature is a monthly publication that offers a diverse range of original research articles, reviews, and critical essays. It includes contributions from experienced academics as well as up-and-coming scholars. Our rigorous double-blind peer-review process ensures that only the most thorough and innovative work is published, thereby upholding the highest academic integrity and excellence standards. As a reputable publication in the field of language and literature, this journal is dedicated to promoting dialogue and collaboration among scholars from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds. We invite researchers and academics to join us in our mission to expand the horizons of knowledge in linguistics and literary studies, and to contribute to the wide array of perspectives that comprise the global academic community. Title International Journal of Linguistics Language and Literature (IJLLL) Frequency Quarterly ISSNOnline 3049-3242 ISSN Print 3139-1990 Publisher Eduschool Academic Research and Publishers Chief Editor Dr. Mahesh Kumar Dey Copyright Eduschool Academic Research and Publishers Starting Year 2025 Subject Linguistics, Language & Literature Language Multiple Languages Publication Format Online & Print Email Id ijlll@eduresearchpublication.com,info@eduresearchpublication.com Website www.eduresearchpublication.com Address Eduschool Academic Research and Publishers Airport Road, Nayathode Kavala, Angamaly-72, Kerala, India. Submission Link www.eduresearchjournal.com/index.php/ijlll/sub
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It is with great pleasure that we present the latest issue of the International Journal of Linguistics Language and Literature (IJLLL). This issue brings together a diverse collection of original scholarly works that illuminate the dynamic relationships between language, literature, cognition, media, and society. The contributions reflect the journal's commitment to fostering interdisciplinary inquiry and advancing critical perspectives on the evolving role of linguistic and literary studies in addressing contemporary intellectual and cultural challenges.
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Linguistic Landscapes of the Digital and Urban City
Linguistic landscape (LL) study began as an inquiry into how public multilingual signage indexes ethnolinguistic vitality, institutional power, and the symbolic ordering of urban space. Over three decades it has absorbed a semiotic and multimodal turn that reframed the sign as emplaced material action rather than denotational text, and it has begun to migrate into digital environments variously called the virtual landscape, the linguistic netscape, or the geotagged feed. This article reviews that trajectory and advances a critical argument about what happens to the category of "landscape" once it is detached from physical co-presence. Drawing on the foundational research into ethnolinguistic vitality, the geosemiotics of situated meaning, and recent studies of geotagged social media, it contends that the digital does not simply expand the scenery but dissolves the two assumptions on which LL analysis rested: emplacement, the claim that a sign means partly through where it physically is, and publicness, the claim that a sign addresses a co-present, undifferentiated viewership sharing one visual field. Digital signage is mobile, algorithmically curated, and individuated, so no two observers occupy the same landscape. The article proposes that scholars retain the urban LL as a bounded material object while treating its digital counterpart as a regime of circulation, and it identifies the methodological consequences of that distinction.
Narrating the Anthropocene: Scale, Agency, and Form in Climate Fiction
This essay argues that climate fiction's distinctive achievement lies not in its capacity to make environmental catastrophe visible but in its formal reorganization around the very impossibility of doing so. Building on now-familiar diagnoses of a crisis of the literary imagination, the theory of hyperobjects, the collapse of human and natural history into a single timeline, and the concept of slow violence, the discussion identifies the genre's central problem as one of scalar disjuncture: the incommensurability between human-sized narration and planetary-scale process. Rather than resolving this disjuncture by abandoning realism for myth or science fiction, the most ambitious climate novels turn the gap itself into form. Through readings of six representative contemporary works, the essay traces three formal strategies by which fiction redistributes narrative agency away from the bounded individual protagonist toward nonhuman, collective, and distributed actants. Climate fiction, it concludes, contributes less a content than a poetics: a way of writing the Anthropocene as the structuring absence around which narrative must reassemble itself. Its realism is not betrayed but mutated, expanded to register forces that exceed the frame of the bourgeois life.
Tony Soprano: Exploring Mental Health through a Mafia Boss
The Sopranos (1999-2007) is often hailed as one of the most influential television shows of all time. This review paper puts the protagonist of the series, Tony Soprano under a cultural and psychological lens. By placing a violent mafia boss inside a vulnerable place of psychiatric therapy, the show explored relevant modern themes such as depression, loneliness, family trauma, toxic masculinity, therapy, violence, and the malaise of urban life. By dissecting the mental science of Tony Soprano, this study explains how the concept of the “Anti-hero” was revolutionized for the modern cinematic medium by the drama. This review paper concludes that Tony Soprano is a sophisticated, reliable, and relatable frame of reference to understand how popular media could explore darker dimensions of human psychology.
Language, Disinformation, and the Rhetoric of Post-Truth Politics
This article advances a linguistic and rhetorical account of the so-called post-truth condition, named word of the year by a major dictionary in 2016. Against the prevailing framing of post-truth as a deficit of facts to be remedied by correction, it argues that the condition is better understood as a crisis of the rhetorical commons: a migration of political language away from persuasion toward the strategic manufacture of doubt and affect. Synthesizing philosophical work on indifference to truth, the cognitive theory of framing and conceptual metaphor, critical discourse analysis, and longstanding claims about debased political language, the article isolates a recurring rhetorical architecture in which form displaces reference. It then examines how repetition exploits the illusory-truth effect, how emotional saturation substitutes for evidentiary adjudication, and how computational propaganda, bots, and astroturfing industrialize these mechanisms at scale. The central claim is that post-truth speech differs categorically from the ordinary political lie: where the liar still honors the authority of truth by concealing it, post-truth discourse erodes the audience's very appetite for adjudication. The article concludes that media literacy must be reconceived as rhetorical literacy, teaching citizens to read frames rather than merely verify facts, if democratic discourse is to be repaired.
Acquired Tongues: Language Acquisition and the Bilingual Literary Imagination
This essay argues that the neurobiology and timing of bilingual language acquisition leave a discernible formal signature on translingual literature. Drawing psycholinguistics and literary criticism into dialogue, it contends that the maturational asymmetry between early and late bilingualism, the difference between an entrenched, automatic first system and an effortfully monitored later one, corresponds to two distinct translingual poetics. Writers who acquired their languages within the plastic window of childhood tend toward a poetics of plenitude: an exuberant code-meshing that treats English and the vernacular as one continuous repertoire. Writers who acquire a literary language in adulthood tend toward a poetics of estrangement, marked by restraint, literalism, and metalinguistic self-consciousness. Building on recent accounts of the neurobiological, cognitive, and social differences between childhood and adult learning, and on scholarship analyzing code-switching in South Asian Anglophone writing, the essay reframes the established categories of translingual practice and the translingual imagination as acquisition-sensitive. It proposes that literary form remembers the conditions under which language was learned, and that critical-period research offers literary studies a principled vocabulary for distinguishing kinds of multilingual creativity rather than collapsing them into a single celebratory figure of hybridity
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The forthcoming issue of the International Journal of Linguistics, Language and Literature (IJLLL) brings together a diverse collection of scholarly contributions that reflect the dynamic intersections of language, literature, society, and emerging technologies. The articles featured in this issue collectively demonstrate how linguistic practices and literary expressions respond to shifting cultural, environmental, technological, and socio-political contexts in the contemporary world.
Translingual Writing and Code-Switching in South Asian Anglophone Literature
This paper examines the phenomenon of translingual writing and code-switching in contemporary South Asian Anglophone literature, analyzing how writers from India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, and Bangladesh deploy multilingual textual strategies to represent the linguistic realities of postcolonial societies. Through close readings of works by Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Mohsin Hamid, and Shehan Karunatilaka, the study identifies distinct modes of translingual practice, including lexical borrowing, syntactic calquing, script-switching, and strategic untranslatability. The paper argues that these practices constitute a politics of language that challenges the monolingual norms of Anglophone literary culture and asserts the legitimacy of multilingual consciousness as both a literary subject and a mode of literary expression.
Gender, Language, and Power in Contemporary Indian Women's Writing
This paper examines the intersection of gender, language, and power in twenty-first-century Indian women's writing, analyzing how contemporary women writers deploy linguistic and narrative strategies to challenge patriarchal structures, assert female subjectivity, and reimagine gender relations in the Indian context. Through close readings of works by Arundhati Roy, Meena Kandasamy, Geetanjali Shree, and Janice Pariat, the study investigates how women writers use stylistic innovation, multilingual practice, narrative form, and the representation of women's speech as tools of feminist resistance. The paper argues that language is both a site of patriarchal oppression and a resource for feminist transformation in Indian literature.
Trauma Narratives and Resilience in Post-Pandemic World Literature
This paper examines the emergence of post-pandemic literature as a significant corpus within contemporary world literature, analyzing how novelists, poets, and essayists have deployed narrative and linguistic strategies to represent the collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Drawing upon trauma theory, narrative psychology, and comparative literary analysis, the study investigates works from diverse linguistic and cultural traditions to identify common patterns and culturally specific variations in literary responses to the pandemic. The paper argues that post-pandemic literature functions both as a mode of cultural testimony and as a resource for building individual and collective resilience through narrative meaning-making.
Artificial Intelligence and The Future of Literary Creativity
This paper critically examines the implications of artificial intelligence for literary creativity, authorship, and the philosophy of language. As large language models demonstrate increasingly sophisticated capacities for generating coherent, stylistically varied, and contextually appropriate prose and poetry, fundamental assumptions about the nature of literary creativity, originality, and meaning are called into question. The study draws upon philosophical aesthetics, computational linguistics, and contemporary literary theory to investigate three central questions: whether AI-generated texts can be considered literature, how AI challenges Romantic and modernist conceptions of authorship, and what the rise of AI writing means for the future of human literary expression. The paper argues for a collaborative model of human-AI literary production that neither romanticizes human creativity nor reduces it to computation.
Digital Literacies and Literary Expression in the Social Media Age
This paper examines how digital platforms and social media have transformed literary expression, reading practices, and the concept of authorship in the twenty-first century. It analyzes the emergence of new literary forms including Twitterature, Instagram poetry, fan fiction, and interactive digital narratives, situating these phenomena within broader transformations in literacy practices. Drawing upon the New Literacy Studies framework and digital humanities scholarship, the study argues that social media has democratized literary production while simultaneously reshaping the linguistic conventions, aesthetic values, and institutional structures of literary culture. The paper considers the implications of these transformations for literary studies, creative writing pedagogy, and the future of reading in an attention-scarce digital environment.
Ecolinguistics and Environmental Discourse in Contemporary Fiction
This paper investigates the emerging field of ecolinguistics and its application to contemporary literary fiction that engages with environmental crisis. By analyzing the linguistic strategies through which novelists represent ecological degradation, species loss, and climate change, the study demonstrates how language shapes environmental consciousness and public discourse. The paper draws upon the theoretical frameworks of Hallidayan systemic functional linguistics, critical discourse analysis, and ecocriticism to examine works by Amitav Ghosh, Barbara Kingsolver, and Richard Powers. It argues that literary language plays a crucial role in making abstract environmental threats tangible and emotionally resonant for readers, thereby contributing to the broader cultural project of environmental awareness
Language, Identity, and Social Cohesion in Multilingual India
This paper examines the intricate relationship between language, identity formation, and social cohesion in the multilingual landscape of contemporary India. Drawing upon sociolinguistic theory, postcolonial criticism, and literary analysis, the study investigates how linguistic practices shape communal identities, mediate social hierarchies, and influence literary representations of belonging and exclusion. The paper argues that language functions not merely as a communicative tool but as a transformative agent in constructing social realities, negotiating displacement, and articulating caste-based and regional identities in Indian fiction and public discourse. By synthesizing perspectives from sociolinguistics and contemporary Indian English literature, this study contributes to an integrated understanding of language as a site of social negotiation in a postcolonial, multilingual democracy.
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The International Journal of Linguistics, Language and Literature is pleased to present its forthcoming issue, which brings together a set of studies that illuminate the powerful role of language in shaping identity, knowledge, culture, and literary imagination. The works collected here demonstrate how linguistic inquiry and literary scholarship continue to intersect with questions of power, history, pedagogy, and representation.
Cartographies of Exile: The Theme of Displacement in Amitav Ghosh's Works
Amitav Ghosh's literary oeuvre constitutes a sustained meditation on displacement as both a historical condition and an existential reality. This paper examines how Ghosh transforms displacement from a simple geographical movement into a multivalent literary device that interrogates colonialism, nationalism, environmental catastrophe, and identity formation. Through close textual analysis of major works including The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace, The Hungry Tide, Sea of Poppies, and Gun Island, this study argues that Ghosh deploys displacement not merely as a thematic concern but as a narrative structure that challenges linear historiography and monolithic national narratives. By examining various forms of displacement colonial, voluntary, environmental, and climate-induced this paper demonstrates how Ghosh's fiction functions as a counter-archive to official histories, recovering the voices of the displaced while simultaneously exposing the ongoing legacies of imperialism and ecological violence.
Translation and the Making of Indian Literary Canons: English as Arbiter of Regional Literary Value
This paper investigates how translation into English functions as a mechanism of canon formation in Indian literature, determining which regional texts achieve recognition and longevity. Through the lens of postcolonial translation theory, this study examines the gatekeeping role that English translation plays in conferring literary legitimacy upon regional language works. Drawing on the theoretical frameworks of Niranjana, Spivak, and Venuti, alongside analysis of institutional structures and market dynamics, this research demonstrates that translation into English operates as a form of consecration that elevates certain texts while marginalizing others. The paper analyzes how publishing houses, academic institutions, and prize committees privilege translated works over original regional literature, thereby constructing hierarchical literary canons that privilege accessibility to English-reading audiences over aesthetic innovation or cultural authenticity. By examining specific cases of canonical inclusion and exclusion, this study reveals how translation practices determine not only which Indian voices are heard globally but also which literary traditions are valued domestically. The analysis concludes by considering alternative models of canon formation that might challenge English linguistic hegemony in Indian literary discourse.
Decolonising the English Curriculum in Indian Universities: Pedagogical Imperatives and Epistemic Justice
This paper examines the theoretical and practical dimensions of decolonising English literary studies in Indian universities, situating the discussion within broader debates on epistemic violence, cultural hegemony, and pedagogical reform. Drawing on postcolonial theory and critical pedagogy, the analysis interrogates the persistence of Eurocentric canonical formations in Indian English departments and explores pathways toward curricular transformation that honor indigenous literary traditions, regional language texts in translation, and emergent voices from the Global South. The study demonstrates that decolonisation extends beyond mere diversification of reading lists to encompass fundamental epistemological shifts in how literature is conceptualized, taught, and valued. Through critical examination of existing syllabi, institutional practices, and theoretical frameworks, this paper argues for a reconceptualization of English studies that moves beyond colonial-era models of literary appreciation to embrace comparative, translational, and culturally grounded approaches. The findings suggest that meaningful decolonisation requires institutional commitment, faculty development, and student engagement with diverse literary epistemologies
English Hegemony and Regional Language Resistance: Examining Linguistic Identity, Power, and Cultural Nationalism in India
This paper examines the complex interplay between English globalization and Indian regional languages through dual lenses of linguistic hegemony and resistance. While English's dominance creates hierarchies affecting education, media, and social mobility, regional language communities have mounted sustained resistance through cultural nationalism, language devotion movements, and policy advocacy. Drawing on postcolonial theory, language ecology frameworks, and sociolinguistic analysis, this study explores how English simultaneously functions as an instrument of opportunity and a force contributing to language shift. The research examines multiple dimensions: educational policies and their stratifying effects, digital divides and technological inequalities, economic gatekeeping through language requirements, and crucially, the resistance movements that have shaped language politics in India. Special attention is given to Tamil language devotion movements, anti-Hindi agitations, and the role of linguistic identity in regional political mobilization. Findings reveal that while English proficiency correlates with socioeconomic advancement, regional languages maintain vitality through deliberate acts of cultural assertion, institutional support, and grassroots mobilization. The study concludes that India's linguistic future depends on recognizing both the pragmatic value of English and the cultural-political significance of regional language movements in preserving multilingual democracy.
The Linguistic Architecture of Self: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Language's Role in Shaping Personal and Collective Identity Formation
Language serves as both a medium of communication and a fundamental architect of human identity, shaping how individuals perceive themselves, construct meaning, and navigate social relationships. This research article provides a comprehensive interdisciplinary analysis of the complex relationship between language and identity formation, examining how linguistic practices contribute to the construction, maintenance, and transformation of personal and collective identities. Through synthesis of research from sociolinguistics, psychology, anthropology, and neuroscience, this study explores the mechanisms by which language influences cognitive processes, social categorization, and cultural transmission. The analysis reveals that language operates as a constitutive force in identity formation through multiple pathways: cognitive-linguistic frameworks that structure thought and perception, social positioning that establishes group membership and boundaries, narrative construction that creates coherent self-concepts, and embodied practices that perform and negotiate identity in interactive contexts. Drawing from 187 empirical studies and theoretical works, this research demonstrates that the language-identity relationship is bidirectional, dynamic, and context-dependent, varying across individuals, communities, and historical periods. Key findings indicate that multilingual individuals navigate complex identity negotiations, that language shift and maintenance have profound implications for cultural continuity, and that digital communication technologies are creating new forms of linguistic identity expression. The study contributes to theoretical understanding by proposing an integrated model of linguistic identity formation that accounts for cognitive, social, cultural, and technological dimensions. The research concludes with implications for education, policy, and social practice in increasingly diverse linguistic communities.
The International Journal of Linguistics, Language and Literature is pleased to present its forthcoming issue, which brings together a series of studies that illuminate the complex and dynamic relationships among language, culture, identity, and literary expression. The articles in this volume span multiple theoretical perspectives and methodological approaches, reflecting the interdisciplinary nature of contemporary linguistic and literary scholarship.
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Navigating Linguistic Complexity: An Analysis of Cognitive, Social, and Pedagogical Challenges in English Second Language Acquisition
This study examines the multifaceted challenges faced by learners acquiring English as a second language (ESL), focusing on cognitive, social, and pedagogical barriers that impede language proficiency development. Through a comprehensive analysis of current literature and empirical research, this paper identifies key obstacles including phonological interference, syntactic complexity, cultural identity negotiation, and institutional inadequacies. The research employs a mixed-methods approach, analyzing both quantitative data from language assessment scores and qualitative interviews with ESL learners across diverse linguistic backgrounds. Findings reveal that learners face significant challenges in mastering English phonology due to L1 interference, struggle with complex grammatical structures absent in their native languages, and encounter socio-cultural barriers that affect motivation and identity formation. The study concludes that effective ESL instruction must address these multidimensional challenges through culturally responsive pedagogy, individualized learning approaches, and comprehensive support systems that acknowledge learners' linguistic and cultural diversity.
The Impact of English as a Global Language on Indian Regional Languages: Language Policy, Cultural Identity, and Linguistic Diversity in Contemporary India
This paper examines the complex relationship between English as a global lingua franca and the preservation of India's rich linguistic heritage, analysing how the dominance of English in education, administration, and economic sectors affects the vitality and intergenerational transmission of regional languages. Through an analysis of language policies, sociolinguistic data, and theoretical frameworks from linguistic imperialism studies, this research demonstrates that while English provides opportunities for global integration and socioeconomic mobility, its hegemonic position creates significant challenges for linguistic diversity. The study reveals that UNESCO identifies 196 endangered languages in India, with many regional languages experiencing reduced domains of use and declining intergenerational transmission. The paper argues that India's linguistic landscape represents a critical case study in understanding how global languages impact local linguistic ecologies, requiring nuanced policy approaches that balance global connectivity with cultural preservation. The research contributes to broader discussions about linguistic diversity in an increasingly interconnected world, highlighting the need for policies that recognize both the instrumental value of English and the intrinsic worth of regional languages in maintaining cultural identity and cognitive diversity.
Hierarchies of Power and Identity: The Representation of Social Class in Victorian Literature
This research examines the complex representation of social class in Victorian literature, analyzing how major authors depicted, critiqued, and reinforced class hierarchies during a period of unprecedented social transformation. Through systematic analysis of canonical works by Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Charlotte Brontë, and Thomas Hardy, this study reveals how literary representations both reflected and shaped contemporary understanding of class identity, social mobility, and economic inequality. The research employs close textual analysis combined with historical contextualization to demonstrate how Victorian writers navigated the tension between social criticism and literary convention. Findings indicate that while Victorian literature increasingly challenged rigid class boundaries, it simultaneously reinforced middle-class values and perspectives as normative. The study contributes to understanding how literature functions as both mirror and constructor of social reality, with implications for contemporary analysis of class representation in cultural texts.
Cross-Cultural Phonetic Landscapes: An Exploration of Pronunciation Variation in Diverse Learning Cultures
This research investigates how pronunciation patterns vary across different learning cultures, examining the complex interplay between native language phonological systems, cultural attitudes toward language learning, and pedagogical approaches in shaping second language pronunciation acquisition. Through comparative analysis of English pronunciation patterns among learners from Mandarin Chinese, Arabic, Spanish, and Japanese linguistic backgrounds, this study reveals systematic variations that reflect both structural linguistic influences and culturally-mediated learning strategies. The research employs acoustic analysis of pronunciation data from 120 participants across four cultural groups, combined with ethnographic investigation of classroom practices and learner attitudes. Findings demonstrate that pronunciation variation results from the interaction of phonological transfer, cultural learning preferences, and institutional pedagogical traditions rather than simple linguistic interference. The study contributes to understanding how cultural factors mediate second language phonetic acquisition and has implications for developing culturally-responsive pronunciation instruction.
It is with immense pleasure that we present the latest issue of the International Journal of Linguistics, Language, and Literature (IJLLL) a distinguished platform committed to advancing critical discourse, intercultural understanding, and scholarly innovation in the study of language and literary expression. This issue brings together a collection of intellectually stimulating research articles that traverse boundaries of discipline, geography, and tradition, reflecting the journal’s dedication to fostering global perspectives in linguistic and literary inquiry.
Linguistic Mediation of Social Reality: The Transformative Power of Language in Human Interaction and Community Formation
This research investigates the fundamental role of language in mediating, constructing, and transforming social interactions across diverse communicative contexts. Drawing on sociolinguistic theory, discourse analysis, and ethnographic methodology, this study examines how language functions not merely as a neutral communication tool but as a constitutive force that shapes social relationships, identity formation, and community boundaries. Through analysis of empirical data from multilingual communities, digital communication platforms, and institutional settings, the research reveals that language operates as a complex system of social action that simultaneously reflects and creates social reality. Key findings demonstrate that linguistic choices function as identity markers, power negotiations, and community membership signals, while language variation and change serve as mechanisms for social inclusion and exclusion. The study employs conversation analysis and critical discourse analysis to examine how speakers strategically deploy linguistic resources to accomplish social goals, challenge existing hierarchies, and construct new forms of social organization. The research contributes to sociolinguistic theory by demonstrating how micro-level linguistic interactions aggregate to produce macro-level social transformation, while providing practical insights for educational policy, intercultural communication, and social justice initiatives.
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Tagore and Yeats: A Cross-Cultural Literary Dialogue
The literary relationship between Rabindranath Tagore and W.B. Yeats represents one of the most significant cross-cultural dialogues in early twentieth-century modernist literature. This paper examines how their mutual influence transcended geographical and cultural boundaries, creating a unique synthesis of Eastern and Western literary traditions. Through comparative analysis of their poetry, correspondence, and critical writings, this study demonstrates that their dialogue facilitated the development of a transcultural modernist aesthetic that challenged conventional East-West literary binaries. The research reveals how Tagore's mystical philosophy influenced Yeats's later symbolic poetry, while Yeats's modernist techniques impacted Tagore's experimental verse. Their collaboration illustrates the dynamic nature of literary modernism as a global phenomenon, contributing to our understanding of how cross-cultural literary exchanges shape artistic innovation and cultural understanding in an increasingly interconnected world.
Temporal Dynamics of Language Acquisition: A Comprehensive Analysis of Neurobiological, Cognitive, and Social Differences Between Childhood and Adult Language Learning
This study examines the fundamental differences between childhood and adult language acquisition, investigating neurobiological, cognitive, and social factors that distinguish these two developmental periods. Through comprehensive analysis of current neuroscientific research, cognitive psychology studies, and longitudinal developmental data, this paper explores how age-related changes in brain plasticity, cognitive processing, and social environments influence language learning capacity and outcomes. The research employs a multi-disciplinary approach, synthesizing evidence from neuroimaging studies, behavioral experiments, and observational research across diverse linguistic and cultural contexts. Findings reveal significant differences in neural activation patterns, with children demonstrating greater left-hemisphere plasticity and more distributed processing networks compared to adults who rely more heavily on explicit learning mechanisms and metalinguistic awareness. Children show advantages in phonological acquisition and implicit grammar learning, while adults demonstrate superior performance in vocabulary acquisition and explicit rule learning. Social factors, including identity formation, motivation, and cultural integration, also differ substantially between age groups. The study concludes that while children possess neurobiological advantages for language acquisition, adults can achieve high proficiency through different but equally valid learning mechanisms that leverage cognitive maturity and explicit knowledge. These findings have significant implications for age-appropriate language instruction methodologies and challenge simplistic interpretations of critical period hypotheses.
The Politics of Translating Indian Regional Literature into English: Power Representation, and Cultural Hierarchies in Literary Translation
This paper examines the complex political dynamics underlying the translation of Indian regional literature into English, analyzing how power structures, cultural hierarchies, and market forces shape both the selection and representation of regional texts in the global literary marketplace. Through a theoretical framework drawing from postcolonial translation studies and cultural sociology, this analysis reveals how English translations of Indian regional literature navigate tensions between cultural authenticity and commercial viability, often reinforcing existing linguistic hierarchies while simultaneously providing global visibility for marginalized voices. The study demonstrates that translation politics in this context involve multiple stakeholders—publishers, translators, critics, and readers—whose competing interests shape which stories are told and how they are represented to English-speaking audiences. The implications extend beyond literary studies to broader questions of cultural representation, linguistic diversity, and postcolonial power dynamics in the contemporary global literary ecosystem.