Language Studies in India: Cognition, Structure, Variation

這本書探討了語言研究在認知、變遷、習得、結構、哲學、政治和教育等多個領域的各種方面。它提供了對這些概念的規範性理解的重新討論，並為對這些概念進行新的觀察開辟了途徑。本書中的每一篇文章都捕捉到了廣泛的觀點，並強調了語言的重要作用，這恰好是其中論點的核心。這本書的獨特之處在於它以簡化的角度呈現了語言的各種複雜方面。它針對的是廣泛的讀者群體，這些讀者不一定需要具備語言學的技術背景。它聚焦於語言與認知、政治、教育等方面的複雜關係，並涉及認知、變遷和習得等問題。這本書適合對語言研究、應用語言學和社會語言學感興趣的研究人員。

Rajesh Kumar teaches linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He graduated with Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has taught in the Department of Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin in the USA and IIT Kanpur, IIT Patna, and Tata Institute of Social Sciences in Mumbai in India. His book Syntax of Negation and Licensing of Negative Polarity Items was published by Routledge in their series Outstanding Dissertations in Linguistics. He has published papers in several journals and presented his work at professional meetings such as Annual Meeting of Linguistic Society of America and Chicago Linguistics Society among others. The broad goal of his research is to uncover regularities underlying both the form (what language is) and sociolinguistic functions (what language does) of natural languages. He has co-edited four books Linguistic Ecology of Mizoram, LinguisticFoundation of Identity, Language, Identity and Contemporary Society, and Text, Context and Construction of Identity with Om Prakash.

Om Prakash teaches courses in the areas of Applied Linguistics, English Language Teaching, Communication Theories in Media, and Corporate Communication in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Gautam Buddha University. He received his M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D. in linguistics from University of Delhi. He has published in journals of national and international repute. He conducts workshops in language teaching and communication for school teachers. His broader areas of research include emerging fields in Applied Linguistics and an interface of Language, Media, and Contemporary Society. He seeks to explore changing forms and functions of language in the context of ever-emerging network society. He has edited a special issue on Language and Exclusion of the Journal of Exclusion Studies (February 2017 issue). He has co-edited four books Linguistic Ecology of Mizoram, Linguistic Foundation of Identity, Language, Identity and Contemporary Society, and Text, Context and Construction of Identity with Rajesh Kumar.

Rajesh Kumar在印度理工學院馬德拉斯分校的人文與社會科學系教授語言學。他在伊利諾伊大學厄巴納-香檳分校獲得語言學博士學位。他曾在美國德克薩斯大學奧斯汀分校的亞洲研究系以及印度的卡納普爾理工學院、巴特那理工學院和孟買的塔塔社會科學研究所任教。他的著作《否定句的句法結構和否定極性項的授權》由Routledge出版，屬於他們的傑出語言學論文系列。他在多個期刊上發表論文，並在美國語言學學會年會和芝加哥語言學學會等專業會議上發表研究成果。他的研究目標是揭示自然語言的形式（語言是什麼）和社會語言學功能（語言的作用）之間的規律性。他與Om Prakash合編了四本書籍，分別是《米佐拉姆語言生態學》、《身份的語言基礎》、《語言、身份與當代社會》和《文本、語境與身份的建構》。

Om Prakash在高塔姆佛陀大學人文與社會科學學院教授應用語言學、英語教學、媒體傳播理論和企業傳播等課程。他在德里大學獲得碩士、哲學碩士和語言學博士學位。他在國內外知名期刊上發表過論文。他為學校教師舉辦語言教學和溝通工作坊。他的研究範疇包括應用語言學的新興領域以及語言、媒體和當代社會的交叉領域。他致力於探索不斷出現的網絡社會背景下語言的變化形式和功能。他曾編輯過《排除研究期刊》（2017年2月號）的特刊《語言與排除》。他與Rajesh Kumar合編了四本書籍，分別是《米佐拉姆語言生態學》、《身份的語言基礎》、《語言、身份與當代社會》和《文本、語境與身份的建構》。