The book comprises eight independent studies, or Chapters, all woven together under a cohesive framework of inquiry, Patterns of Communication Literary and Non-literary. Each Chapter deals with a distinctive pattern of (human) communication, with focus on either literary or non-literary texts. Even as each Chapter would seem diverse and ‘autonomous’ by themselves because of their focused concern with a certain type of text and discrete models of discussion, they all reflect a core concern with variegated matrix of (human) communication per se, whether linguistic, pragmatic, semiotic, or an admixture of all of these. The format of the book is interdisciplinary that follows an eclectic model of inquiry, spanning from literature to linguistics (linguistic-stylistics), covering literary as well as non-literary texts, and pragmatics on to semiotics. The studies, in keeping with their varied points of theoretical orientation, discuss both literary and non-literary textsas also ‘native’ and non-native varieties of English.Further, the dynamics of nativization of English at the hands of those who own it as a second language or foreign language is yet another major dimension of its focused concern.In the process, the studies also explore a contrastive pattern of communication, centered on both the dynamics of Indianization of English in India as well as that of nativization of English in Yemen, as well as its reverse process, precisely the dynamics of Englishizationin India across an umbrella spectrum of Indian languages, or, pan- Indian speech. The ambit of discussion in the book thus ranges from texts from British English literature to non-literary texts, from Indian English, the variety of English that functions as a Second Language of the country, to Yemeni English, where English is used as a Foreign Language of the country, both in everyday-language situation. The dynamic pattern of media communication in Englishis also explored at length in both Indian and Yemeni contexts of situation. About the Author: Dr Vinod Shankar Dubey received higher education at the Department of English, Ranchi University, Ranchi, India and the Department of Linguistics, University of Wales, Bangor, UK. He obtained his PhD degree under supervision of late Professor S K Verma, an internationally-acclaimed linguist and authority on Indian English and former Vice-Chancellor, Central University of English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad. Dr Dubey was a British Council Scholar, British council Visitor, an Honorary Visiting Fellow at the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, University of Lancaster, UK, a Recipient of prestigious Hornby Trust Grant, Visiting Fellow to the Centre of Advanced Study in Linguistics, Osmania University Hyderabad and External Faculty of the Central University of English & Foreign Languages, Hyderabad for about a decade and a half. Dr Dubey is an ex-Professor & Head of the University Department of English, TM Bhagalpur University, Bhagalpur. He was a Professor of English, Hodeidah University, Yemen, Professor of English,Taiz University, Yemen and Professor of Linguistics at the same University, for a span of about ten years. Dr Dubey has presented research papers at various national/ international conferences/seminars, notably at the Third International Conference on South Asian Languages & Linguistics, held at the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, January 1982, SEAMEO RELC International Seminar on “Language in the Global Context : Implications for the Language Classroom”, Singapore, April 1999 and at the “Second International Conference on ‘Critical Discourse Analysis: The Message of the Medium”, Hodeidah University, Hodeidah, Yemen. 2003. Dr Dubey’s book, Newspaper English in India, published 1989, a first comprehensive study on the topic to receive world-wide attention, had a Foreword written by Braj B Kachru, ex-Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois, Urbana, U.S.A. and a globally renowned foremost scholar of Indian English. Among other publications, Dr Dubey’s research paper, ‘The lexical style of Indian English newspapers’, published in World Englishes, Vol. 10, No.1. Pergamon Press, Oxford. 1991 is prominently cited in David Crystal edited The Cambridge Encyclopaedia of the English Language, published 1994, and his name also figures in the brief column of Acknowledgements by the author in Preface to the book. Dr Dubey’s name also finds mention in the Who’s Who of Indian Writers, published by the Sahitya Academy (Indian National Academy of Letters), New Delhi. 1998.