THE use of textbooks for teaching in the classroom has its pros and cons and its advantages and disadvantages are often debated. At a higher level, books can only be recommended rather than mandated ...

Bhashasastra Nikhandu by V.R. Prabhodachandran Nayar states at the outset that it is the sum total of the fruits of the author’s studies and research in various areas of linguistics from the 1960’s.

Cognitive linguistics is a modern school of linguistic thought that originally began to emerge in the 1970s due to dissatisfaction with formal approaches to language. As I explain in my book, ...