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This book is about the author as guided and supported by his caring mother and as conjoined with his caressing wife. We are all products of our nature, nurture and culture, and we are environed by context and its participants. The locale of our praxis is as important as our cognition which creates the framework for our perception. What happens in one's life is his or her biography and what he or she ends up as cognising is his or her cognizography. Teachers, books, films, food and events all influence the way we perceive. Biography or Cognizography is relevant only if some generalizations can be drawn. That's what has been done here to highlight phenomena like Social Justice, Scientific Temperament, Cultural Finesse, and Spousal Bond.
About the author
VENNELAKANTI PRAKASAM (1943) is a Telugu speaker of Telugurayapuram of PSR Nellore District, Andhra Pradesh. He did his M.A. in English (Nagpur, 1964), D. Phil in Linguistics (York 1972), Ph. D in Law (Nalsar Law University, 2013). Taught Linguistics, Stylistics and English Grammar at Osmania University, Punjabi University and English and Foreign Languages University. He was a Fulbright Fellow (1985) at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign and the University of California at Berkeley. He guided more than forty scholars doing their M.Phil and Ph.D. He has published research papers and books in English and Telugu dealing with Linguistics, Stylistics, Comparative religious studies, Ambedkar Studies, Semiotics, Forensic Linguistics, Homeopathy, Grammar of English, and of Telugu.
