Stylistics of Indian English Fiction: With Special Reference to Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy

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The book analyzes stylistic features of discourse in Indian English Fiction with special reference to Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy. Here the language above the level of sentence in the novel under consideration has been made the object of study in terms of the principles of textual and interpersonal pragmatics. An attempt has been made to investigate how people manage discourse behaviour with respect to their socio-cultural backgrounds and interactive goals at the time of conversation. The main concern of this stylistic exercise is to uncover new insights into the nature of literary communication in fiction  by examining what language establishes, rather than what it communicates, in terms of various role relationships, socio-political and ideological perspectives, operations of power and solidarity, etc. This study will significantly help to better explain the creative aspects of language use in fiction as the strategies and norms of speech act theory, cooperative principle and politeness principle have been analyzed in the novel not only in terms of their observance but also from the point of view of breaches and violations as a result of which a literary artist is able to generate various aesthetically satisfying devices. The book can be of great help and use to the teachers and students of stylistics, discourse analysis and Indian English Fiction as well as to those of socio-linguistics, psycholinguistics, pragmatics, sociology and anthropology.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Vijay Singh Thakur

Dr. Vijay Singh Thakur specializes in Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, and Teaching  English  as  a  Second/Foreign Language. He holds academic credentials of Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics and M.A. in English Literature from Rani Durgavati University, Jabalpur and M. Phil in Linguistics & Phonetics and Postgraduate Diploma in the Teaching of English from Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderabad, which has been currently renamed as The English and Foreign Languages University. He has presented research papers and ran workshops in many national/international conferences and published several papers/articles on various topics related to TESOL Pedagogy and Cross-cultural Pragmatics in journals and proceedings of conferences in India and abroad. He has also published a book entitled Sociolinguistic Perspectives of Politeness in Communication and his creative work in English and Hindi have appeared in many international/national journals and anthologies. He has taught various English language courses both at college and school level in India and Sultanate of Oman for many years. His present affiliation is with  Dhofar University, Salalah, Sultanate of Oman, which is affiliated with the American Lebanese University, Beirut. Dr. Thakur is Assistant Professor of Linguistics in the department of languages and translation of this university.

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Title
Stylistics of Indian English Fiction: With Special Reference to Vikram Seth’s A Suitable Boy
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Edition
1st ed.
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ISBN
9788183871761
Length
xii+336p., Bibliography; Index; 23cm.
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