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Personal information |
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Date of Birth: 15.07.1942
Father’s name: V. N. Ramaswami Aiyangar
Mother tongue: Tamil |
Place of Birth: Madurai District, Tamil Nadu
Mother’s Name: Komalavalli
Other languages known: Kannada, Malayalam, Sanskrit, French
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Contacts |
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106 South Park, Kalkaji, New Delhi -110019
Phone: 26282016 Mobile: 98 718 24742
Email : jnathan_99@yahoo.com
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Educational Qualifications |
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1961 B.A. (Major Hindi & English; Minor Economics) Mysore
University
1963 M.A. (Hindi), Allahabad University
1967 M.A. (Linguistics), Deccan College, Pune
1970 Ph.D. (Hindi) Agra University: A Comparative Study of
Tamil mystic poet Periyalwar and Surdas
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Positions held |
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1. 1987-2004 Professor of Hindi, School of Humanities, Indira Gandhi National
University, New Delhi. (IGNOU). W6"> Director of
the School for six years during this period.
2. 1992-1996 Visiting Professor of Hindi, The University
of West Indies, Trinidad, West Indies
3. 1976-1987 Professor of Applied Linguistics, Central
Institute of Hindi, Agra; posted at the Regional Centres of Delhi and Hyderabad;
was regional director of the respective Regions.
4. 1970-1976 Reader in Hindi, Central Institute of Hindi,
Agra; posted at the Regional Centre at Delhi.
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Awards |
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1. 1997 Babu Shyamsundar Samman, Uttar Pradesh Hindi Sansthan, Lucknow
2. 1987 Hindi Sevi Samman, Gandhi Pratishthan, Hyderabad
3. 1996 Hindi Panchanan Samman, Hindi Samiti, New York, US
4. 1996 Commendation, Bharatiya Vidya Sansthan, Trinidad
5. 1998 Commemoration, Nehru Yuva Kendra Sangathan, Luchnow
6. 2005 Justice Sharda Charan Misra Bhashasetu samman, Apni Bhasha, Kolkata |
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Specialization |
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Applied Linguistics, especially Language Teaching, Translation and Lexicography
Open and Distance Education, especially curriculum development using multimedia
inputs
Theory of grammar, especially syntactical analysis
Natural language processing and computational linguistics |
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Association with other institutions and Achievements. |
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1. Member, Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Department of Economic Affairs, Government of
India
2. Member, Joint Hindi Salahkar Samiti, Department of Space and Department of
Atomic Energy, Government of India 9. Member , Board of Management, Vardhman
Open University, Kota (1999-2002)
3. Member, Language Advisori Committee, NCERT, New Delhi (2002-2005)
4. Member, Executive Council, Dakshina Bharat Hindi Prachar sabha, Chennai
(2001-2004)
5. Member, General Body, CIEFL (now EFLU), Hyderabad (200-2004)
6. Founder President, Indian Association of Applied Linguistics.
7. Chairman, committee for the revision of Hindi programmes, Kendriya Hindi
Prashikshan sansthan, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India. |
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Publications |
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12 Books published. Some significant titles are-
a. 1973 Spoken Hindi: A Microwave Approach Bahri Publicatons, New Delhi
(Originally prepared for the American Peace Corps)
b. 1980 प्रयोग और प्रयोग OUP, New Delhi ( Usage grammar of Hindi)
c. 1990 स्वयं हिंदी सीखें Janepa Publishers, New Delhi (A set of three
books and 4 cassettes for self-learning)
d. 1991 नवभारत (A futuristic science fiction)
e. 2003 नव्य हिंदी व्याकरण NCERT, New Delhi (A book of grammar for second
language Hindi, class 9-10 for NCERT)
f. 2009 लघु छात्रकोश Janepa Publishers, New Delhi (An abridged version of
छात्रकोश with CD)
g. 2009 छात्रकोश Janepa Publishers, New Delhi (An Advanced Learners’
Dictonary; with a CD version that gives pronunciation and usages)
About 80 papers on various aspects of Hindi language (such as functional
language, sociolinguistics, translation and language teaching and syntax) and
Distance Education Some significant papers are-
a. Multi-modal delivery systems ISTAS, NCSU, North Carolina, US, 2002
b. वैश्वीकरण के संदर्भ में हिंदी इक्कीसवीं शताब्दी सूचना क्रांति और हिंदी पर
संगोष्ठी, हैदराबाद, 2002
c. भाषा सिक्षण में नवप्रवर्तन भाषा, केंद्रीय हिंदी निदेसालय, नयी दिल्ली. 2002
d. The Linguistic Diaspora GOPIO Conference, New Delhi, 2001
e. The word ‘about’ as a clausal element All-India Conference of Dravidian
Linguistics, Idaiyangudi, TN, 2001
f. Comprehensibility in Distance Education ICDE Asia Regional Conference, New
Delhi, 2000
g. Conflict in cultural translation Seminar on translation of of Contemporary
Indian literature, the Nehru Centre, London, 1999
h. Knowledge base and utterances XXII All India Conference of Linguists, Kanpur,
1999
i. Meaning in the Indian linguistic tradition Round Table of the 19th South
Asian Language Association (SALA), York, UK, 1999
j. Lexicon in the brain Indo-French Workshop on Naturaal Language Processing,
Hyderabad, 1997 Language Convergence: Confluence of the Codes National Seminar
on Dr. Suniti Kumar Chatterji, Hyderabad ,1989
k. Fact and Non-fact verbs in Hindi language CIIL Conference on Grammar, Mysore,
1982
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