Aligarh: The Department of Linguistics, Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), is organizing a three-day national seminar on "Representation, Narration and Appropriacy in Hindi, Urdu Fiction" from October 6-8, 2008.

Prof. P.K. Abdul Azis, Vice Chancellor of the varsity inaugurated the seminar on 6th October at 10:00 am at the Faculty of Arts.

According to Prof. A.R. Fatihi, Chairman, Department of Linguistics, the purpose of the seminar is to provide a forum where issues related to language used in Hindi-Urdu Fiction can be given a thoughtful and scholarly consideration.

He further said that the seminar proposes to trace down the sources of uncertainty in the relationship between language and context.

It will also attempt to answer the question - 'why does the notion of style cling tenaciously to the language of fiction'.

Prof. Fatihi said that one of the central foci of research on language of fiction over the last several decades has been the relation between language and context.

"The focus on context as both a constraining factor and a product of discourse, has led to increasing fine grained approaches to speech, since it is primarily in the formation of spoken or written discourse that language and context are articulated. From a social perspective, conversation analysis in fiction has made major contributions to our understanding of language in interaction. It asserts that face-to-face interaction is the primordial context for human sociality and the most important locus of observation of language", Prof. Fatihi said.