(Special Isssue on Corpus Linguistics for Teaching and Learning. In Honour of John Sinclair, edited by María Moreno Jaén & Carmen Pérez Basanta)

(Special Issue on Corpus Linguistics: A Time-Tested Strategy for Studying a Natural Language,edited by Niladri Sekhar Dash)

(Special Issue on Applied Sociolinguistics,edited by V. K. Jain & Meena Jain)

Pragmatics
by Jean Stilwell Peccei
Reviewed by AZADEH NEMATI

A Textbook for Objective Questions in English
by Manoj Kumar
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

A Key to Literary Forms and Terms
by Sudhir K. Arora
Reviewed by R. K. SINGH

(Special issue on Computational Treatment of Language, edited by Alexander Gelbukh)

SOCORRO BERNARDOS & MARÍA  A. BARRIOS: Data Model for a Lexical Resource Based on Lexical Functions
VIRGINIA FRANCISCO & PABLO GERVÁS: Ontology-Supported Automated Mark Up of Affective Information in Texts
PETER CHEW, PHILIP KEGELMEYER, BRETT BADER & AHMED ABDELALI:  The Knowledge of Good and Evil: Multilingual Ideology Classification with PARAFAC2 and Machine Learning
GREGORY GREFENSTETTE & GUILLAUME PITEL: Image Specific Language Model: Comparing Language Models from Two Independent Distributions from FlickR and the Web
NATALIA PONOMAREVA: Revealing Granularity of Domain Terminology with Inductive Method of Model Self-Organization
RONALD WINNEMÖLLER: Using Meaning Aspects for Word Sense Disambiguation
PAULA CRISTINA VAZ & DAVID MARTINS DE MATOS: Using Unsupervised Word Sense Disambiguation to Guess Verb Subjects on Untagged Corpora
XIAOHONG WU,  WENLIANG CHEN & HITOSHI ISAHARA: Automatic Extraction of Case Frames for Chinese Verbs
JESÚS TOMÁS, JORDI BATALLER, FRANCISCO CASACUBERTA & JAIME LLORET: Mining Wikipedia as a Parallel and Comparable Corpus

(Special issue on: Vocabulary Teaching & Learning edited by Carmen Pérez Basanta, Beatriz Cortina Pérez & María Moreno Jaén)

PAUL MEARA: Simulating Word Associations in an L2: The Effects of Structural Complexity
PAUL NATION: Vocabulary Learning through Experience Tasks
ELKE PETERS: The Relationship between L2 Learners’ Online Dictionary Use and Word Retention
M. P. AGUSTÍN LLACH & R. M. JIMÉNEZ CATALÁN: Measuring Lexical Knowledge through the Lexical Accuracy Ratio
J. EYCKMANS, F. BOERS & H. STENGERS: Identifying Chunks: Who can see the Wood for the Trees?
J. P. LOUCKY & JOHN SPIRI: Systematic Ways of Teaching, Studying and Testing High Frequency Vocabulary Online
N. MARÍN CUCALA & J. M. MARTÍNEZ MARTÍNEZ: A Selection of Useful Resources for Teaching/Learning Vocabulary from the World Wide Bagrag

BOOK REVIEWS

Teaching Word Meanings
by Steven A. Stahl & William E. Nagy
Reviewed by PAUL NATION

Words, Words, Words
by David Crystal
Reviewed by FERNANDO SERRANO VALVERDE

(Special issue on Dalit Writings,
edited by Raj Kumar)

VINOD VERMA: (Untouchable) Words Against the Word: The Law of Material Thought in Dalit Poetry
RAJESH KUMAR: Contestation and Negotiation of Dalit Identities: A Perspective from Below
RAJSHREE DHALI: History, Community and Identity: An Interpretation of Dalibai
K. SUNEETHA RANI: Does Translation Empower a Dalit Text?
G. J. V. PRASAD: Translating Tamil Dalit Literature into English or How to Resist One’s Self
B. MANGALAM: Tamil Dalit Literature: An Overview
K.A.GEETHA & K. SRILATA: From Subjugation to Celebration: A Study of Bama’s Karukku and Sangat
K. SATYANARAYANA: The Discovery of Jashuva: The Shaping of Dalit Literary Tradition in Telugu
RAJ KUMAR: Alienation, Consciousness and Assertion: An Interpretation of Oriya Dalit Narrative
PRAVAKAR PALAKA: Teaching of Dalit Literature in Higher Education

SHOUHUI ZHAO: Chinese Script Reform: State Intervention and Individual Influence
ABDUL-FATTAH AL-JABR: Toward a Discourse-based Approach to Teaching FL Skills
B. I. AKEREDOLU-ALE: Challenges of Using Concordance in Second Language Vocabulary and Grammar Teaching
V. K. JAIN & MEENA JAIN: Sociolinguistics of “Tu”, “Tum” and “Aap”
VANI RUPELA & R. MANJULA: Phonotactic Development in Kannada: Some Aspects and Future Directions
MAJED AL-QURAN: Morphological and Semantic Structuring of Turkish Loanwords into Jordanian Colloquial Arabic
AMIN KARIMNIA & ALI FAYYAZI: Language Planning and Standardization
TAHER SARHADY: Theme Development in Literary and Scientific Texts
JAYASHREE. C. SHANBAL & K. S. PREMA: Phonological Skills in Bilingual-Biliterate Children: Cross-Language Transfer within Dravidian Languages of India
MOHAMMAD MOHSENI FAR: Techniques Utilized for Vocabulary Acquisition
ALI SOLTANI: Areas of Difficulty in the Reading Comprehension for Iranian ESP Students
VANDANA PATHAK: Unveiling the Velum: Tehmina Durrani’s Blasphemy
ALIREZA BAROUNI EBRAHIMI & ZAHRA FOTOVATNIA: The Design of the Basic Beginner Course
RITA KAKKAR: Nation Representation in Colonial and Post Colonial India
MOHAMMAD RAHIMI & MAHBOOBEH SAADAT: The Application of Item Analysis to a C-test

AUM C. SINHA: A Reclassification of English Verbals and its Implications for the Teaching of English
ALI AKBAR JABBARI: Syntax of Persian and English Negation
BHAVATOSH INDRAGURU: Graphics of Cyclical Metaphors in the Poetry of John Keats and W. B. Yeats
NILADRI SEKHAR DASH: A Brief Historical Survey on the Use of Handmade Language Databases in Linguistics Studies
K. CHANDRA SEKHARAIAH  & UPAKARAM GOPAL: Schizophrenia in System Modeling
P. B.KHANALE & A. S.VAINGANKAR: Design Aspects of Fuzzy Programming Language
GRACE EBUNLOLA ADAMO: National Language: A Sign of Self Reliance and Identity
AGNES NGALE LYONGA: Globalization and National Cultures
MOHAMMAD SALEHI: The Relationship between Intrinsic Motivation and Learner Autonomy
TECLE GHEBREMUSE: Some Fundamental Factors of Writing: A Study of Grade Eleven Asmara City Secondary School Students
K. RATNA SHIELA MANI: Sarojini Naidu’s Poetry : A Study in Functional Stylistics

SANJUKTA GHOSH-SARKAR: Syntax and Pragmatics of Bangla Imperfective Participle
NILADRI SEKHAR DASH: A Brief Historical Survey on the Use of Handmade Language Databases in Linguistics Studies
ANITA LASHKARIAN: Proto-Zionism and/or Anti-Semitism in George Eliot’s Daniel Deronda
ALI AKBAR JABBARI: A Syntactic and Semantic Account of Persian Psych-verbs
MOHAMMAD AMOUZADEH: Intercultural Miscommunica- tion: The Case of Persian Speakers in Australian English Context
JALAL UDDIN KHAN: Teaching Language through Literature: The Importance of Genre-based Suitable Introductory Courses for Students of English as a Foreign/Second Language
EUGENE NGEZEM: Modern Marriage in Collapse: A Study of Selected Plays of Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter
SUH JOSEPH CHE: Revisiting The Classics : Jean Vinay And Jean Darbelnet’s Stylistique Comparee Du Français Et De L’aglais
SIBANSU MUKHOPADHYAY: Language in Curriculum: Ideologies and Experiences

(Special issue on Language Power Desire, edited by Simi Malhotra & Saugata Bhaduri)

SECTION I: THEORIZING LANGUAGE POWER DESIRE

SATYABRATA DAS: Of Force, Of Rhythm, Of Melody
BORIS GUBMAN: Historical Narrative in the Age of Post-modernity
BHAVATOSH INDRAGURU: Syntax and the Question of Power: A Comparative Study

SECTION II: LANGUAGE POWER DESIRE: THE INDIAN CONTEXT

SECTION III: LANGUAGE POWER DESIRE: THE OTHER CONTEXT

SIMI MALHOTRA & SAUGATA BHADURI: The Partitioned Whole: Reading Reason in Pope’s ‘An Essay on Criticism’
ANURADHA GHOSH: The Dialectics of Language, Power and Desire: Yet Another Reading of Frankenstein
NILANJABA MUKHERJEE: Translations/ Representations / Colonizations
KRISHNAN UNNI. P.: Language and its (mis)placed Tropes: An Examination of Reinaldo Arenas’s Stories

ESMA MAAMOURI GHRIB: EFL Learners’ and Teachers’ Attitudes towards the Writing Program
SIMI MALHOTRA & SAUGATA BAHDURI: The Beginnings of ‘Theory’: A Study of Friedrich Nietzsche’s Works in Connection to ‘Theory’
BHAVATOSH INDRAGURU: Vakya – Artha According to Bhartrahari
EUGENE NGEZEM: Beckett, Pinter and Fugard: A Study in the Culture of Violence
KAVITA RASTOGI: A Contrastive Study of English-Hindi Gender System
SAYED MOHAMMAD ANOOSHEH: Moral Philosophy in the Novels of Iris Murdoch
PRAMOD MISRA & A. K. KAPOOR: Dynamics of Gender Disparities
A. J. SEBASTIAN: The Poetry of Guido Gezelle: An Assessment
ELHAM MANSOOJI & PARVIN GHASEMI: Robert Frost and the Notions of Nature, God and Man

F. POURGIV, M. Y. NAYYERI & A. M. SHAH SANI: Development of Narration and Narratology: Propp, Greimas, Todorov and Genette
F. SADIGHI & H. ARAB: Language Universals among Languages and their Implications for the Dialogue among Civilizations
MICHAEL ETUGE APUGE: The DP Structure in Akoose
SIBANSU MUKHOPADHYAY: The Process of Language Standardization: A Set Theory Representation
ISHAQ AKBARIAN: On the Problematic Areas of Idiomatic Language
AHMED-SOKARNO ABDEL-HAFIZ: Raising to Subject in Standard Arabic and Modern Standard English
NEHAL AHMAD: Word Formation Processes (W.F.P.) in Bhojpuri 
FERDOS JAMALI: Interpersonal Grammatical Metaphor  in the Written Discourse of  the Social and Natural Sciences

SAYED MOHAMMED ANOOSHEH: Who is Godot In Samuel Beckett?
ABEDELELLAH AL-NEHAR: If Only Hamlet’s Uncle had been a nicer guy
SAYYED HAMIDREZA ALAVI: “Man and God” In the Iranian and English poems and the Holy Quran (A Comparative Study)
PAUL MBUFONG & VINCENT TANDA: The Problem With The English Language in Cameroon
SHASHI RANI: Impressionism in the Novels of Stephen Crane
ALI AKBAR JABBARI: Temporarl Properties of Persian and English
SANJUKTA GHOSH & PROBAL DASGUPTA: Affixal Marking of Bangla Direct Objects: Syntactic or Pragmatic Prominence
TABE FLORENCE A. E: The  Dynamics  of  Language  and  National  Identity
RASOOL HAJIZADEHU: Stylistic Variation and Lexical Choice In Persian
BLASIUS ACHIRI TABOH: Case and Proper Nouns in Cameroonian Spoken English: The Influence of Bantu

SIMI MALHOTRA & SAUGATA BHADURI: Existence, Humanity, Sociality: A Study of Jean Paul Sartre’s Existentialism and Humanism (1946)
HENRY K. JICK AND ANDREW T. NGEH: An Aesthetic Appreciation of Names in Linus Asong’s
No Way to Die & The Crown of Thorns
HENRY K. JICK: The City as a Background for Social Commitment in Mongo Beti’s Perpetua and the Habit
of Unhappiness and Remember Ruben
AFNAN H. FATANI: A Diachronic Semantic Error Analysis (DSEA) of Arabic Non-core Lexicon
SOMA PAUL: A Computational Approach to Vowel Harmony In Telugu Verbal Morphology
PAUL MBUFONG & VINCENT TANDA: The Problem with the English Language in Cameroon
PLUS N. TAMANJI: Mechanisms of Lexical Expansion in Underprivileged Languages
PARVIN GHASEMI: Why So Black and Blue: Identity, Love and Community in The Bluest Eye
JIM BURWELL: Formulaic Language in Communication
HASSAN A. AL-HAZEMI: Measuring Productive Vocabulary of Some Arab University Students

HENRY K. JICK & ANDREW TATA NGEH: Alexandre Biyidi-Awala, Eza Boto, Mongo Beti: Names, The Man and Liberty in his Fiction
PRAVEEN SHARDA: Levels And Functions of Appropriation in Fiction: A Case Study of Upamanyu Chatterjee’s English August
MARYAM ABISHAVI: Time, History And Art: Byron’s Tragic Sense of these Parables in Childe Harold
and Don Juan
SIMI MALHOTRA & SAUGATA BHADURI: Narrating the Brink: A Study in the Problematics of Postcoloniality
HASAN GHAZALA: Stylistics and Lexis in an EFL Context
BEHZAD GHADERI: The Sublime and the Grotesque: Romantic Body and Performance
TEJINDER KAUR: ‘Woman’ In The Poetry of W. B. Yeats
F. POURGIV, F. SADIGHI & M. ROSTAMPOUR:
A Study of Lewis Carrol’s Novels and the Gricean Principles and Maxims
M. LOUTFY NOFAL: The Language of Protest: The Muckrakers with Special Emphasis on Upton Sinclair’s
The Jungle
GAURI SHANKAR JHA: Scott Fitzgerald: Victim of a Dream
IRAJ VESALI: Errors, Corrections and their Complexity
in University Conversation Classes: A Historical View
HENRY K. JICK & FLORENCE A. E. TABE:
A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Bole Butake’s Lake God and
The Survivors
VINCENT TANDA: WH-Operators in Bafut
MOHAMMAD AMOUZADEH: Politeness in Persian
F. POURGIVE, F. SADIGHI & ALIREZA AMERI: Learner Treatment through Poetry and/or Prose to Teach Vocabulary: A Case of High School Students

(Special issue on Signs and Signification, Vol. 2 edited by H. S. Gill & Giovanni Manetti)

KAPIL KAPOOR: Reality and its Representation: The Verbal Image in Indian Thought and Bhartrhari
GEORGE WOLF: The Importance of Panini for the Development of the Science of Meaning
IRÈNE ROSIER CATACH: Aristotle and Augustine, Two Models of Occidental Medieval Semantics
CLAUDE PANACCIO: Des Signes Dans L’intellect
STEPHAN MEIER-OESER: The Meaning of ‘signification’ in Scholastic Logic
HARJEET SINGH GILL: In the Beginning was the Word
MARCELO DASCAL: Types of Polemics and Types of Polemical Moves
F. G. ASENJO: The Reality of the Word
ROY HARRIS: Gulliver and the Semioticians
FRANÇOIS RASTIER: Sign and Symbol: Semiotics and Cognitive Science
GIOVANNI MANETTI: Origins and Some Developments of the Notion of Enunciation
JANICE DELEDALLE-RHODES: Ambiguity,
Interpretation and Meaning in the Work of Henry James:
A Peircean Approach
ROSY SINGH: A Semiotic Reading of Franz Kafka’s
The Trial
SANTANU BISWAS: Jacques Lacan, Doctor Faustus
and the Polyneics Complex of Man
FRANSON MANJALI: Force Dynamics, Case Structures, and Prototypicality
DEBASISH CHAKRABARTY: Kanada’s Vaisesika Sutra: A Translation
RAJNISH MISHRA: Buddhist Theory of Meaning
ANURADHA GHOSH: A Critique of Madhavacarya’s Lokayata Darkana as Presented in his Sarvadarkana SaNgraha
SAUGATA BHADURI: Cognition and Significance in the Yoga System of Philosophy