Abirlal Mukhopadhyay

An Essential Book on Linguistics and Syntactical Fundamentals Abirlal Mukhopadhyay

To know any culture or to study any culture one must study their language. If an Indian student tries to understand British culture, S/he has to understand the linguistic structure and formation of British English (language). The colonial masters understood the importance of language in culture, therefore they injected some ideologies to the native people, they made them think their own language as inferior, gradually the native people started taking the ruling language and culture as superior. It was called by Edward Said as "Us Other" mentality. Whatever what we have to know in simple words is that language is an important part of any culture. A student of language must be familiar with the terms 'langue', 'parole', 'representamen', 'icon', 'index, ' etc. But before that the structure of a sentence, all the constituents of a sentence. I have discussed some most important syntactical fundamentals and linguistic concepts in this book.