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This collection of essays by Debi Prasanna Pattanayak brings together for the first time the writings of this eminent Indian linguist. The essays were compiled by the author himself, under the aegis of the IGNCA with whom these two volumes have been co-published. It contains his speeches and writings spanning a career over forty years.

Debi Prasanna Pattanayak retired as the Director, Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore. He was honoured with the Padmashree in 1987. His interests are multilingualism and mother tongue education, minor, minority and endangered languages, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, applied linguistics, computational linguistics, folklore and lexicography.

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