Literary Devices in Tamil Scholarly Communications

Briefly describes the Vedic standards of exposition (authorial work) - Prabhu Sammita (seminal standard), Suhrit Sammita (near- semintil work, scholarly communications), Kanta Sammita (popular standard) and Sisu Sammita (children's standard)- and the parallel typology of compositions mentioned in the ancient Tamil classic TolkAppiam. TolkAppiam provides also standards and guidelines for various types of exposition. Discusses the planes work - idea plane and verbal plane and notational plane - involved in most intellectual expositions; enumerates the likely fallacies and faults that may occur in the idea and verbal planes respectively, as enumerated by S.R.Ranganathan. Authors use various devices / techniques to aid readers / listeners to grasp and understand betteran exposition. Over thirty literary devices {utti), including those proposed in TolkAppiam, are enumerated, grouped into nine categories. Shows that an information indexing and retrieval tool, such as a thesaurus, can also aid researches and knowledge discovery in the subject / domain covered by it.