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Language as a symbolic system

 Many animals and even plants species communicate with each other. Humans are not unique in this capability. However human symbolic communication that is learned instead of biologically inherited. Symbols are sounds or things which have meaning given to them by the users. A specialized language dependent upon the use of symbols for communication and created for the purpose of achieving greater exactitude, as in symbolic logic or mathematics. Examples from the Web for symbolic language. The text is written, as will be observed, in symbolic language.  Language is symbolic in may ways. First, language is a symbol of something else. I can write the word heart, for example, but the word itself is not a heart. I can ay the word peanut butter, but the word is certainly not edible. Language itself is a symbolic of the words we speak and write. Second, language is a symbol of a culture. The words both acceptable and unacceptable which comprise a language reflect the culture of those who speak i

Contribution of Manju Kapur

 Manju Kapur is a famous Indian English novelist. Her writings reflect man-woman relationship, human desire, longing, body, gender discrimination, marginalization, rebellion and protest. The female protagonists in Manju Kapur's novels are caught in a continuous dichotomy between the personal needs and the institutional and social obligations and responsibilities. They challenge the male domination and patriarchal mechanisms of surveillance and control over women's body. Till date she has written five novels- Difficult Daughters, The Immigrant, A Married Woman, Home and The Custody. Her first novel ' Difficult Daughters ' won the Commonwealth Writer's Prize and was a number one best seller in India. Manju Kapur's work center around the middle class and her readers are often stunned by her sharply-etched characters and emotional settings. Her themes almost always are women-centric and revolve around the issues of home and family. Her first novel " Difficult D

Contribution of Shashi Deshpande

 Shashi Deshpande has been a very serious Indian English woman novelist who has depicted different aspects of woman's life especially the middle class woman's life- in her short stories as well as novels. Shashi Deshpande has a subjugate but significant presence in the Indian literary imagination with eight novels, two crime novels, and four books for children, six collections of short stories and numerous articles. Her famous novels are The Dark Holds No Terrors, If I Die Today, Roots and Shadow, That Long Shadow, Come Up and Be Dead, The Binding Vine, A Matter of Time, Small Remedies. She is the recipient of Thirumathi Rangammal prize for her novel ' Roots and Shadows ', Sahitya Academy award for the novel ' That Long Silence ' and Nanjangud Thirumalamba award for the novel ' The Dark Holds No Terrors '. In her novel she deals with the emotional deprivation in its different facets. She emphasizes the traditional Indian society heir against woman and ho