Literary devices in tamil scholarly communications^†

Briefly describes the Vedic standards of exposition (authorial work) – Prabhu Sammita (seminal standard), Suhrit Sammita (near-seminal 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 better an 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.