Revisiting Polari: the lost LGBT language

The LGBT community used to communicate through a secret language called Polari. Polari started picking up popularity when homosexuality was a crime during 18th century in the United Kingdom. Later in time, when homosexuality was accepted and legalized, the language fell out of use because not many people wanted a secret language anymore. This paper focuses on the history, use and decline of the language with insights on the concepts of Language and Gender.

Essentialism of Translation in Foreign Language Teaching

Exploring the Classical Language: Odia – a Historical Linguistic Approach

Language is boundless and immeasurable. To apprehend a language to its core and to stumble upon the facts associated to it, are the bigger challenges that a language study involves. Commonly it is said that language comes from a place. But practically, language comes from the people who are a part of the place. A language stays in a region, dignified, when its people maintain its ethnicity in all ways. Odia, the language of the land of Odia’s or the state Odisha, holds an extensive history coinciding the culture, politics, media and literature. Despite the fact that Odia language is widely accepted at various levels, there lies a certain inhibition in the modern day studies as to what is the position of the language at any recognized level. All the apprehensions were answered when Odia language bagged the Classical Language status in 2014 alongside five other classical languages of India. Language not only resides in
the form of textbooks but also in forms of dance, music, sculptures and archaeological entities. While the language studies have surveyed Odia upon various levels, it is equally important to study the language from a closer prospect. This paper tries to encapsulate the history of the language, its rise, the current status of the language and the possible efforts that every linguist or language aspirant needs to think about to promote all aspects of the language.

The Journey of a Language; Odia as a Classical Language

Insights on Modern Communication: an allure for entrepreneurs

The primary factors that regulate performance of new enterprises and their success rates are usually derived from the skills possessed by individual innovators and entrepreneurs. The technical and business skill is however still visible as the primary, yet the process of how one communicates being on the front seat of innovation does really describe the potential of being a successful communicator. It is fair to say that among the high technological works around us, the penetration of English language skills or Communication skills has been bringing a change in the way of our lives.

Gendered Differences in Language Use: a Sociolinguistics study