Three (3) New Books of Linguistics

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  I beg sincere apology for sending this unsolicited message to your email address.

  Dear Teachers, Colleagues, and Friends,

  With ‘refined altruistic hedonism’ we are highly delighted to inform you about the recent publication of following three (3) new books of Linguistics: 

  (a) Language Corpora and Applied Linguistics, 
  (b) Rainbow of Linguistics (Vol. I), and 
  (c) Rainbow of Linguistics (Vol. II). 

  We hereby dedicate these books to the people of Linguistics and allied disciplines. 

  The publication details and contents of the books are as follows:

  BOOK 1:

  Title: Language Corpora and Applied Linguistics
  Author:              Niladri Sekhar Dash
  Publisher:          Sahitya Samsad Pvt. Ltd., 
  Kolkata – 700009, 
  West Bengal, India
  Year of Publication: July 2007
  ISBN: 81-7955-122-9
  Price: Rs. 150/- (India), USD 60 (Foreign)
  Pages: 270+ (HB)

  General view: The author makes an effort to interweave computer and language corpus in an interactive interface with a goal for developing new systems and resources for second language teaching, compiling dictionaries with digitized corpora, introducing new approached for dialects study, designing robust systems for word sense understanding, and developing new method for machine translation.
  The primary goal of the book is to make people aware about the functional and referential benefits of language corpora in the works of applied linguistics. The academic relevance of this book may be attested in its direct focus on Indian context of applied linguistic works as well as in its sincere appeal for redirecting the focus of works of the Indian applied linguists towards this new approach for the benefit of the discipline.
  The issues addressed in this book have academic and functional relevance in the area of corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, applied linguistics, language technology, cognitive linguistics, language processing, as well as in mainstream linguistics. It is enriched with reference to the recent works carried out in advanced languages at various parts of the world. The book will help the readers to know how novel approaches are used to make valuable improvements over traditional systems and techniques normally used in applied linguistics. 
  The book is suitable to be used as a course book both at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It can also be used as a reference book for teachers employed in language teaching and researchers working in areas of applied linguistics and language technology. Also people working in other areas will find this book useful for information, observation, and interpretation.

  Target Readers: Undergraduate and postgraduate students, University teachers, research scholars, corpus linguists, language technologists, first and second language teachers, dialectologists, lexicographers, terminographers, lexical semanticists, machine translators, and people working in allied disciplines.

  Table of Content:

  List of Abbreviations
  Introduction
  Chapter 1: Corpora and Second Language Learning
  Chapter 2: Corpora and Dictionary Compilation
  Chapter 3: Corpora and Dialect Study
  Chapter 4: Corpora and Word Sense Understanding
  Chapter 5: Corpora and Machine Translation
  Bibliography
  Authors Index
  Subject Index

  If you are interested to have a copy of this volume, please contact:

  Sahitya Samsad Pvt. Ltd.
  32A Acharya P. C. Roy Road
  Sealdah, Kolkata-700009, 
  West Bengal, India
  Ph. +91-033-2350 7669
  Ph: +91-033 2350 3195
  Fax: 91-33-2360 3508
  Email: samsad at cal3.vsnl.net.in 
  Email: raka at cal2.vsnl.net.in 
  Website http://www.samsadbooks.com  

  BOOK 2:

  Title: Rainbow of Linguistics (Vol. I)
  Editors:  Niladri Sekhar Dash, Probal Dasgupta, and Pabitra Sarkar
  Publisher:          T. Media Publication, 
  33, College Row, Kolkata – 700009, 
  West Bengal, India
  Year of Publication: 2007
  ISBN: 81-89802-01-1
  Price: Rs. 150/- (India), USD 40 (Foreign)
  Pages: 175+ (HB)

  Target readers: Undergraduate and postgraduate students, university teachers, research scholars, corpus linguists, language technologists, language teachers, phonologists, syntacticians, dialectologists, lexicographers, terminographers, semanticists, advertisers, sociolinguists, machine translators, stylisticians, statistical linguists, MRD developers, and people working in allied disciplines.

  Table of Contents (Vol. I):

  0.             N.S. Dash, P. Dasgupta, and P. Sarkar (India) “Introduction”
  1.             A.R. Fatihi (AMU, India) “Negativity in the language of political advertising” (Pp. 1-12).
  2.             Arpita Bose (WU, Canada) “Interaction of linguistic and speech motor processes in aphasia: theoretical and clinical implications” (Pp. 13-37)
  3.             Awadesh Kumar Mishra (NCERT, India) “Some aspects of the morphology of Marâm” (Pp. 38-44)
  4.             Ayan Majumder (NOU, India) “Towards the online language teaching” (Pp. 45-56).
  5.             B.N. Patnaik (CIIL, India) “Remarks on two proverbial expressions in Oriya” (Pp. 57-71)
  6.             Girish Nath Jha (JNU, India) “Optimality: re-investigation of Hindi stress system” (Pp. 72-78)
  7.             Hanne-Ruth Thompson (UCL, UK) “Panini’s magic: towards a clearer picture of the Bengali case system” (Pp. 79-97)
  8.             Joybrato  Mukherjee (GU, Germany) “Structural nativisation in Indian English: exploring the lexis-grammar interface” (Pp. 98-116)
  9.             Mina  Dan (CU, India) “Mid-front semivowels in Bangla: a case study at the phonology-morphology interface” (Pp. 117-128)
  10.         Niladri  Sekhar  Dash (ISI, India) “Indian scenario in language corpus generation” (129-161)
  11.         About the Contributors
  12.         General Index

  If you are interested to have copy of the book please contact:

  Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash
  Linguistic Research Unit
  Indian Statistical Institute
  203, Barrackpore Trunk Road
  Kolkata – 700108
  West Bengal, India
  Ph: (O) + 91- 033 - 2575 3281
  Email: nisedash at gmail.com
  Email: ns_dash at yahoo.com

  BOOK 3:

  Title: Rainbow of Linguistics (Vol. II)
  Editors:  Niladri Sekhar Dash, Probal Dasgupta, and Pabitra Sarkar
  Publisher:          T. Media Publication, 
  33, College Row, 
  Kolkata – 700009, 
  West Bengal, India
  Year of Publication: 2007
  ISBN: 81-89802-02-X
  Price: Rs. 150/- (India), USD 40 (Foreign)
  Pages: 150+ (HB)

  Target readers: Undergraduate and postgraduate students, university teachers, research scholars, corpus linguists, language technologists, language teachers, phonologists, syntacticians, dialectologists, lexicographers, terminographers, semanticists, advertisers, sociolinguists, machine translators, stylisticians, statistical linguists, MRD developers, and people working in allied disciplines.

  Table of Contents (Vol. II):

  0.             N.S. Dash, P. Dasgupta, and P. Sarkar “Introduction”
  1.             Omkar Nath Koul (IIL, India) “Linguistic situation in India: future perspectives” (Pp. 1-8)
  2.             P. Perumalsamy (LD, India) “Interrelationship between social status and language use: a case of negative request in Tamil” (Pp. 9-16).
  3.             Probal Dasgupta (ISI, India) “Non-isomorphic root clause phenomena in the substantivist syntax of Bengali” (Pp. 17-28)
  4.             Rajib Chakraborty and Aditi Bhunia Chakraborty (NOU, India) “Does sexist language really exist? An assessment of the debate over sexist–non-sexist language in the context of Bengali” (Pp. 29-43)
  5.             Sanjukta Ghosh (BHU, India) “Two competing properties of a classifier: quantification and individuation” (Pp. 44-60)
  6.             S. Rajendran (TU, India) “Building hierarchies and networks from MRDs of Tamil” (Pp. 61-72)
  7.             Sreerupa Das and  Rajkumar Roychoudhury (ISI, India) “Readability of Bengali novels of Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay” (Pp. 73-86)
  8.             Suman Preet Virk (PU, India) “Thesaurus: a network of conceptually-arranged vocabulary: with special reference to Roget’s compilation” (Pp. 87-95)
  9.             Sunandan Kumar Sen (AS, India) “An outline of the Old Bengali syntax” (Pp. 96-106)
  10.         Tanmoy Bhattacharya (DU, India) “There is a flower on the table” (Pp. 107-120)
  11.         About the Contributors 
  12.         General Index

  If you are interested to have a copy of the book, please contact:

  Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash
  Linguistic Research Unit
  Indian Statistical Institute
  203, Barrackpore Trunk Road
  Kolkata – 700108
  West Bengal, India
  Ph: (O) + 91- 033 - 2575 3281
  Email: nisedash at gmail.com
  Email: ns_dash at yahoo.com

  Thank you very much for hearing our words.

  With best wishes and regards,

  Sincerely,

  Niladri Sekhar Dash

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