Rukmini Bhaya Nair

List of John Benjamins publications in which Rukmini Bhaya Nair is involved.

Journals

International Journal of Language and Culture

Edited by Esther Pascual and Vera da Silva Sinha

ISSN 2214-3157 | E‑ISSN 2214‑3165

Language and Dialogue

Edited by Edda Weigand

ISSN 2210-4119 | E‑ISSN 2210‑4127

Bhaya Nair, Rukmini 2022 Postcolonial pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: 24th Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 35–78 | Chapter

Bhaya Nair, Rukmini 2022 Postcolonial pragmatics Handbook of Pragmatics: Manual, Verschueren, Jef and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 1083–1121 | Chapter

Bhaya Nair, Rukmini 2020 Caste and language Handbook of Pragmatics: 23rd Annual Installment, Östman, Jan-Ola and Jef Verschueren (eds.), pp. 77–110 | Chapter

Bhaya Nair, Rukmini 2020 Chapter 13. Figuring it out: Old modes and new codes for multimodality, technology and creative performativity in 21st century India Performing Metaphoric Creativity across Modes and Contexts, Hidalgo-Downing, Laura and Blanca Kraljevic Mujic (eds.), pp. 311–342 | Chapter

Satya Nadella, Vikram Chandra and Manjul Bhargava, three public figures of Indian origin, have recently suggested that significant similarities exist between the creative processes involved in writing poetry and in producing computer codes. This paper explores some of the consequences of drawing… read more

Bhaya Nair, Rukmini 2011 States of reason and reasons of state: Noam Chomsky’s metaphors as a dialogue across disciplines Language and Dialogue 1:2, pp. 266–291 | Article

Over the past half-century, Noam Chomsky has established a powerful intellectual presence in two apparently unrelated domains of discourse — the field of theoretical linguistics and the arena of anti-establishment politics. This paper examines Chomsky’s use of metaphor across these domains, arguing… read more