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This study explores ten key terms used to describe women in contemporary Indian and Chinese literature, analyzing how these terms marginalize and vilify female characters. Using Fairclough's Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) model, the research examines how language both reflects and critiques gender power dynamics. The study reveals that these ter...
The choice of words in our day to day conversation is the mirror of our self. They are not just part of a language but they are the reflection of our ideas, thoughts, emotions and behaviour. Words are of two types; content and function words. The choice of words varies from gender to gender, religion to religion, region to region and so on. It is p...
Forensic Linguistics is a relatively new area of study within Modern Applied Linguistics, using scientific linguistic study in forensic contexts (McMenamin 2002). According to the National Crime Record Bureau, the heinous crimes committed by the children between the age group of 16-18 have increased from 54% to 66% from 2003-2013 and 9341 cases dur...
Suicide is a serious public health priority according to World Health Organisation. According to World Health Organisation 8000,000 annual suicide deaths are recorded globally. While approximately 1% of people die by suicide, 2.7% attempt suicide, 3.1% plan for suicide and 9.2% have suicidal ideation. Suicidal ideation refers to the thought about c...
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Everything has a language of its own. Language is the key to all communications. The
concept of men and women exist in most of the living creatures from time unknown. Women and Men
speak and use language differently to communicate. These differences were studied and analysed by
linguists under the sub-field Language and Gender. The present...
Obtaining a confession is one of the most important aims of police interrogation, and it is estimated that more than 80% of solved criminal cases are solved by a confession. The term confession is not defined in the Evidence Act of India. All the provisions relating to confessions occur under the heading of admission, which is applicable to confess...
A false confession is an admission of guilt in a crime in which the confessor is not responsible for the crime. False confession can be induced through coercion or by the mental disorder or incompetency of the accused. There are cases where innocent individuals have confessed to crimes they did not commit. Innocent defendants have made incriminatin...
Suicide note is a type of forensic text as it is an important evidence to solve if the equivocal death is a suicide or not. It is left by the victim before the act of suicide which expresses the motive of suicide and it varies from other texts in theme and style providing linguistic clue characters. There is an issue in investigating suicide case w...
Language is used to express the objectives, motives, plots, and the socio-cultural attitudes of the community through literature. The organization and structure of a text has influenced several researchers to explore texts of different genres to gain insights into the flow of texts. This has gained importance in both literature teaching and researc...
This paper studies the conversations involved in stalking. The objective of the study is to identify the conversational strategies used by the stalkers and the reaction of the victims, and to find if all the stalkers use similar strategies and all the victims react similarly. Conversation analysis has been applied to analyse the conversation of sta...
