GLOBAL MEDIA JOURNAL — Indian Edition
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ISSN 2249 – 5835

Current Issue

WINTER ISSUE/ DECEMBER 2012
Volume: 3 / Number: 2

Theme : Language and Communication

Guest Editors:

Dr. Aditi Ghosh
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics
University of Calcutta
87/1 College Street, Kolkata -700073
West Bengal, India
Email: aditi.gh@caluniv.ac.in / aditi.gh@gmail.com

Contents

EDITORIAL

Articles

1. THE TITULAR PROBLEM AND THE TITLE MYSTERY By Probal Dasgupta
   
   
2. TOWARDS AN APPROACH TO THE STUDY OF MISCOMMUNICATION By B.N.Patnaik
   
   
3. POLITICIAN, MEDIA AND WORDS: VOCABULARY FROM THE IRAQ WAR By
   Aadil Amin Kak
   
   
4. INSTRUCTOR –STUDENT COMMUNICATION: CULTURAL MISCONCEPTIONS
   By Zeinab Ibrahim
   
   
5. INDO-ARYAN LOAN WORDS IN KHASI: AN INTRODUCTORY NOTE By Ajit Kumar Baishya & Bashisha Shabong
   
   

Students' Research

1. EAT-EXPRESSIONS: CASES FROM BANGLA AND ORIYA By Nivedita Mitra
   
   
2. CODE-SWITCHING AS A COMMUNICATIVE STRATEGY IN CONVERSATION
   By Basudha Das
   
   
3. NEW MEDIA AND ENTROPIC LANGUAGE By Chhavi Garg

Commentaries

1. ON COMMUNICATION: ROUGH NOTES FROM A LINGUIST’S DIARY-By
   Udaya Narayana Singh
   
   
2. ESPERANTO: COMMUNICATING AN ALTERNATIVE – By Mina Dan
   
   
3. STUDY ON INTERRELATIONSHIP BETWEEN YOUTH LINGO AND TELEVISION CONTENT-By Romesh Chaturvedi & Shruti Mehrotra
   

Book Reviews

1. DISCOURSE THEORY AND PRACTICE: A READER -- Review by Syeda Nadia Ali
   
   
2. THE ART OF POLITE COMMUNICATION-- Review by Dr. Jayati Chatterjee
   
   
3. FOREIGNERS AND FOREIGN LANGUAGES IN INDIA-- Review by Rajib Chakraborty
   

Documents

1. UNIVERSAL DECLARATION ON LINGUISTIC RIGHTS 1996
2. THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGES ACT (INDIA)1963 /1967