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The transition from the linguistics of codes, associated with structuralism and its neogrammarian ancestry, to a linguistics of discourses capable of seriously contemporary concerns has been a protracted transition. The average linguist has tended to find this transition somewhat confusing.
Probal Dasgupta is an Indian linguist, who retired from the Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata, in 2018.
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Dasgupta, P. (2023). Linguistic Variation, Discourse, and Culture. In: Kumar, R., Prakash, O. (eds) Language Studies in India. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-19-5276-0_3
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