"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh Pal
“The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place” said George Bernard Shaw. What Shaw indicated is that human communication appears simple but it is not so. Communication is complex and communicative competence can be difficult to achieve. How well people can communicate their thoughts and ideas to others can be challenging and depends on how good the skills of communication they possess. Communicative competence includes a person’s knowledge on the rules of grammar, syntax, sounds of a language and nonverbal cues and when and how to apply them in various communication contexts. This book aims to help the users develop effective communication skills. They will find it beneficial in improving their competency through an understanding of what communication competence is and what are its various features.
The book aims to develop in the reader:
• an understanding of the basic concepts and the various modes of communication
• an ability to understand the symbolic representation of the sounds of English speeches
• a familiarity with various word-classes of English
• an acquaintance with the changing fashions in English usages
• an ability to eliminate confusion between spoken and written English as well as make a sensible and sensitive use of the language
Moreover, the book can make an authentic reference to communicative grammar.
Tanutrushna Panigrahi
Tanutrushna Panigrahi teaches in the Post-graduate Department of English, Utkal University. Her specialisations include American Literature, Communication in English, Professional Writing, English Language Teaching, and her research interests are American Novel and Short Stories, Nineteenth Century Indian Novel, the Mahabharata Literature, India in World Literature and ICT in Literary Studies. As a Fulbright Fellowship grantee, she studied the unpublished works of John Cheever in the special collection libraries i.e., Houghton in Harvard University and Goldfarb in Brandeis University, Massachusetts, USA. She has lectured several times in universities in India and abroad. In 2017, she attended the Institute of World Literature, Harvard University's summer course in the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2019 she visited the University of Sydney to attend a panel on World Literature and Global South. She has more than forty research publications in national and international journals. Tanutrushna Panigrahi is a teacher trainer and has been a resource person for the UGC sponsored Capacity Building Programme for Women Managers in Higher Education series workshops. She has long experience in academic administration and held various administrative posts in the institutions she worked in.
