Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT) is a private university located in&nbsp;Tamil Nadu, India. Founded in 1984, as Vellore Engineering College, the institution offers 20 undergraduate, 34 postgraduate, four integrated and four research programs. It has campuses in Vellore, Amravati, Bhopal and Chennai.

VIT is one of the top ranked private universities in India according to NIRF, THE and QS Rankings.&nbsp;Govt. of India has recognized&nbsp;VIT, Vellore as an&nbsp;Institution of Eminence. This has allowed VIT to take independent quality initiatives and move up in world ranking.

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VIT University

Department of English

The face of an unprecedented global health crisis, a familiar medium like comics played a crucial role in educating the masses and disseminating relevant information. Necessarily, one could argue with Richard Horton that “there may be no way to prevent a COVID-19 pandemic in this global- ized time, but verified information is the most effective prevention against the dis- ease of panic” (537), just as how graphic medicine proves it to be.

School of Social Sciences & Languages

Vellore Campus

Springer

COVIDCommunication Exploring Pandemic Discourse

Language death is a phenomenon with symptoms related to demeaning vocabulary count and depletion of domains of language use along with the simplicity of linguistic structures. It commences by exhibiting traits of a declining number of fluent speakers, dwindling attitude of the speakers with regard to their heritage language, language shift, lack of inter-generational language transfer accompanied by a feeling that heritage language is inferior to outside languages, and Gulgulia exhibits every trait of such a dying language. It has become a waning language that is very close to its permanent extinction. The present study elucidates the ethnolinguistic vitality of Gulgulia tested through chosen sociolinguistic parameters which were found suitable to Gulgulia’s scenario. It also explores the linguistic situation of the Gulgulian community in Dhanbad, the community members’ language use in their homes and in their miscellaneous interethnic interactions and examines what relation prevails between the community’s language preference and their vitality. It was found that speaker variables, such as age, gender, and language competence governed the speaker’s attitude toward the heritage language. The location of the speech community is also a regulating factor in determining the inclination for preservation or attrition of the native language. The analysis of the&nbsp;speech behavior in the Gulgulian community confirms the loss of major genres such as the art of narration. Out of all the genres of language use, only two are surviving, which is alarming. &nbsp;

Sustainable Multilingualism

The Ethnolinguistic vitality of Gulgulia

The study explores the public and private signs in the Linguistic Landscape (LL) of Jamshedpur city in India. It employs a mixed methods approach as it integrates quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis to reveal the city's careful display of monolingual, bilingual, or multilingual signs representing distinct identities. The study investigates the distribution of signs across five sample locations while focusing on the signs' content, their functions (symbolic vs informational), and explores the sign producers' motivation for their language choice on signs.

Linguistic landscape. An International Journal

The prominence of English in the Linguistic Landscape of Jamshedpur

The paper explores feminism as a theoretical framework for viewing the metamorphosis of the female leads in the select movies, The Great Indian Kitchen (Malayalam) (2021) and Thappad (Hindi) (2020). The aforementioned films quivered the entire social system which had been entangling womenfolk inside the four walls. The movies, an attempt to break the stereotypical images of women, captured the frustrations and tribulations of married women realistically. The scope of the movies, indeed, is due to the fact women could relate themselves to the characters portrayed on screen. The contemporary works differ from the existing works as it stresses the argument that "walking-off" is inevitable for them where reverence is no longer obliged. Be it a financially independent or dependent, equal rights and mutual respect is undeniable commodity in a family. This paper also intends to untangle the incongruity in the compromises made by womenfolk and how and why society promotes this prejudiced stance. These compromises play a colossal role in the subterranean one-sided patriarchal system of marriage based on gender inequity. The reference point of the argument anticipated here is that there should not be any gravity on woman to endure in a marriage where there is no leeway of equality, self-esteem and veneration.

Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Extending Circumscription: The Metamorphosis of Female Protagonists in the Indian Movies 'The Great Indian Kitchen' and 'Thappad'

Indian Travel Narratives: New Perspectives

The Travel Writer as Cultural Icon and Literary Predecessor: Negotiating the African Legacy of S. K. Pottekkatt

Machismos, as is the instance with feminineness for women, are publically built gender profiles under which men are pigeonholed. The inferred affiliation between male bodies and machismos or masculinity presents us with an understanding of the sex/gender gap where ‘sex' is seen as remaining a preeminence and ‘gender' as a set of facets which are ancillary. New directions in feminist studies have begun to take up this issue of reconsidering or rediscovering masculinity, especially in the context of recent works of Literature. Arundhati Roy's Man-booker award winning novel, The God of Small Things (1997) is predominantly a novel about battle- in and through the body. Velutha, “The God of Loss. The God of Small Things” (Roy 265), whose name in Malayalam means “white” (Roy 73, 175 and 334), the colour affiliated both to sorrow and sunlit, has been depicted by the writer as the emblem of masculinity. Arundhati Roy builds an account that focuses on bodily happenstances that rebel considerable discourses and function as edges of cultural and social acquaintances. This study has been enthused by the comprehension that the subject of masculinity in women's writing has not yet been explored to that extent, which it was expected to be! Little attention has been given to the analysis of women's writing with the tools that theories of virilities provide. What masculinities emerge in Roy's The God of Small Things is the multi-layered, mongrel text, wavering between traversing valuations of indigenous acuities of the standing of the man, the bequest of interventionism and the impresses of novelty and globalization! Hence, this study, not only reconnoiters the different traits of masculinity present in Velutha as envisioned by a female writer, but it also deliberates in detail the male identity construction.

Folia Linguistica et Litteraria

Ammu's man: Reconnoitering the machismo of velutha in the god of small things

Various psycholinguistics strategies applied to the acquisition of second and third language has become a prominent phenomenon in the last few decades. Yet there is paucity in the third language acquisition. The psycholinguistics strategies are used by few experts to teach second or third language. In this realm the cognitive method is used to acquire the language. The psycholinguistics principles bring out how one perceives the language and produces that particular language is important. While acquiring a third language from the medium of second language there is transference of second language rather than the first language to third language. Usually the structure of the second language is transferred to the third language. The learners commit errors when they acquire third language from the medium of second language. Normally the four skills of language acquisition are applied in the strategies of language acquisition. This article explains how psycholinguistic strategies affect the learning while acquiring a third language from the second language and how to rectify the committed errors.

Department of Languages

World University root node

Strategies of psycholinguistics on the acquisition of third language from the second language

The immense use of web based resources is an undeniable truth in today's learning scenario. Resource-based learning has gained momentum in leaps and bounds. Resource-based learning aids in the academic and holistic development of students by taking into account their capabilities, their styles of learning and their needs. RBL empowers the student to analyze and organize digital material. It also enables the learner to develop critical thinking skills and gives them the confidence to sift from the plethora of information available, the skill to ferret out what they need and what is needed for them. This skill will go a long way in empowering them to utilize the varied resources that is available on hand in various forms be it print or electronic. Such training in thinking will help them to approach any topic in a number of learning styles. The authors of this research paper, have attempted to understand the impact of resource based learning on teachers, keeping in view Gagne's (1985) theory of levels of learning. Teachers from traditional background of teaching methods involving classroom interface, were approached and their views on the new methods popularized by RBL were obtained by means of a self-administered online questionnaire. The objective of the study was to analyze the attitudinal responses of the teachers towards RBL and whether they viewed it as a beneficial exercise for students as against traditional methods of learning. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.

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Journal of Physics: Conference Series

Examining Resource Based Learning and Individual Learning Capabilities in Todays' Scenario

Introduction: Social beings need to communicate. They need to interact, they need to share. When things are going well everything is smooth sailing. When there is a deviation to this, ripples are seen. Youngsters are a representative lot of this society, who are used to socializing and hanging out with their peer groups, that when they are suddenly faced with a situation of social isolation and inability to mingle with their friends, is highly unpalatable and impossible for them. With the usual stress activators such as academic tests and exams they now have to face the new stress of forced social isolation. Such situational constraints will inevitably cause psychological, physical, and behavioural problems. Objective: The authors have taken for their study the anxiety felt by a group of students who have been forced into a period of social isolation due to situational demands. Methods: The researchers have identified four clusters of parameters to test the mindset of a select group of students. The four clusters contain questions relating to their mindset regarding missing friends, their understanding of loneliness, the psychological impact resulting from this situation, and the coping strategies they employ to tackle the situation. The test-retest methodology is being followed to analyze the data. Result: The analysis of data proved that prolonged periods of peer deprivation will induce the feeling of loneliness among students. Social isolation will make students suffer unknown fears, affect the sleep patterns of students. Not being able to go out and socialize causes stress among students, however, meditation reduces levels of stress among students. When the young minds are not able to meet up with friends like they used to just a few weeks back, they need to understand their problem is a global problem. The problem has to be tackled not only by individuals but also by governments. Conclusion: We face several challenges which have to be tackled both by the government and by individuals. The authors feel that teachers who have direct contact with the student community are uniquely positioned because of their networking with students almost daily. © IJCRR.