2021

Affordances of Arbitrariness in Transmodal Semiosis

Arbitrariness is a linguistic principle proposed by Ferdinand de Saussure through his synchronic structuralist analysis of language. He delineates the structure of signs and establishes the absenc...

Socially Represented Image of the Bihari Migrants

The present paper is based on the findings of an empirical study of the socially represented image of the Bihari migrants by the people of Mumbai (India). The study comprised 307 respondents, of ...

Reading the Construct: An Appraisal of Muslim Women in Contemporary Hindi Commercial Cinema

Cinema is considered a cultural artifact that reflects and replicates reality. Image constructs of women as represented in cinema function as signs of ideological discourses in a patriarchal socie...

Effect of Online Gaming on Positive and Negative Affect and Psychological Wellbeing

India is ranked 5th globally in game downloads on Q2 2016 and is touted to reach the $1 billion mark by 2021. Though there is scant research in this significantly growing field of human behavior,...

Syncretism Among the Tagins of Arunachal Pradesh with Special Reference to Donyi-Poloism

The present paper discusses the indigenous identity based on religious faith called “Donyi-Poloism” of the tribal community of Tagins of Daporijo in the district of Upper Subansiri of the state o...