Faculty Details proforma for DU Web-site (PLEASE FILL THIS IN AND Email it to [email protected] and cc: [email protected] Title Prof./Dr. First Name Last Photograph Name Designation ShobhaShob Satyanathha Satyan ath Address DepartmentDepartm eofnt Linguistics, of Linguis tUniversityics, Univ eofrs ity of DelhiDe lhi Phone No Office 011011-27666676-27666676 Residence 011 -27666127 Mobile 99587775589958777558 [email protected] Email [email protected] WebE-dPageucati onal Qualification s EducationDegreeal Qualifications Institution Year DegreePh.D . InstitutionUnivers ity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Year1991 Ph.D. UniversityU.S.A of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA 1991 M.Litt.M. Phil UniversityUnivers ofity Delhi of D elhi 19831983 MA MA UniversityUnivers ofity Delhi of D elhi 19801980 Career Profile 1. Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Delhi, Delhi 1. Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics, Univer sity of Delhi, Delhi (2000-present) 2. Reader,2. Rea Departmentder, Depart mofe Linguistics,nt of Lingu Assamistics, University,Assam Un iSilchar,versity ,Assam Silcha (1995r, As-s a2000)m (1 995- 2000) 3. Senior Fellow (Post Doc) CIIL, Mysore (1992-1994) 4. Project Director (ICSSR supported Research Project) 1994-1995 5. Adjunct Assistant Professor, Drexel University (1990-1991) Special: Vice President, Linguistic Society of India Administrative (cum Academic)Assignments Head, Department of Linguistics (CAS II); Director, Centre for Advanced Studies in Linguistics, University of Delhi (CAS II) Director, BRICs and 7+1 (Hindi Language and Indian Studies Programme). Hankuk University of Foreign Studies (HUFS), South Korea. NAACSo cCoordinatiolinguisor,tic sDepartment: language of v aLinguisticsriation an d(CAS) lang uage change th NodalLa officernguag/Convenee in spacr efor: 1 NTA9 c erelatedntury Bworkeng al/Assam, North-East FacilitatingIndia and monitoring OBE and Evaluation Outcomes of Language contact: Guyanese English creole Contact languages in North-East India Urban Multilingualism Areas of Interest / Specialization I am interested in the related multidisciplinary areas of Language Variation and Change, Socio Phonetics, Dialect Geography, Language contact, Pidgins and Creoles, Multilingualism and language policy, Socio-Historical, and quantitative linguistics, which translates into both my teaching and research. My research is majorly concentrated in Eastern and North Eastern India and on urban towns and cities across the country. I and some of my students are currently working on Delhi. I wrote my doctoral dissertation on Guyanese English creole. Since then, my research www.du.ac.in Page 1 has expanded into other contact settings in India. I am my students have been Building Speech Corpora (natural Conversations) of Indian Languages: Assamese, Bengali, Malayalam, Angami, Ao, Bishnupriya, Nagamese, Hindi, English, Guyanese English. Courses Taught 1. Introduction to Linguistics 2. Phonetics 3. Aspects of Linguistic Behaviour 4. Topics in Sociolinguistics 5. Multilingualism 6. Seminar on City and Language 7. Language contact, mixed languages 8. Historical Linguistics 9. Research Methodology, 10. Data and Methodology, 11. Englishes across the world 12. Field Methods 13. Multilingualism and language policy [ new course] 14. Advanced Sociolinguistics : Stable variation and language change 15. Historical Linguistics 16. Varieties of M.Phil. Courses [current trends in sociolinguistics, Language contact and Mixed languages, Research methods: Data, methods and theory debates, working with historical materials…] Online Teaching and Research Guidance Regular Online Meetings/Discussion with Research Students Weekly workshops with M.Phil. Part I students Weekly online meeting with The Team on Book Project M.A. Teaching and the PG Diploma Teaching (Last term taught Four courses) At present Two courses are being taught Online. Research Guidance Supervision of awarded Doctoral Thesis 1. Laskar, Nazrin B. (2011). A study of variation and change in a bilingual context: The case of Bishnupriya. 2. Dey, Kakoli (2010). A Sociolinguistic study: Silchar Bengali. 3. Sharma, Richa (2017).A sociophonetic study of variation in vowels among Hindi / Punjabi-English bilinguals in Delhi. 4. Bhattacharya, Pratibha (2017). Variation and change: A case study of Calcutta Bengali. 5. KelhouvinuoSuokhrie. Clanlectal contact and its impact on language change in Kohima village [In progress] Supervision of awarded M.Phil dissertations 1. Ranjan Kumar. Geographic variation and change in Bihari group of languages [In progress] 2. Meghna Bose Gender assignment among Bengali children in Delhi 3. Yutensangla Imchen.Bidialectalism in Mokokchung town. 4. ViyaTerhiija. A study of southern Angami dialects in space. 5. Catherine Michael. Language choice in a multilingual context: implications for phonology. 6. Gayatri Das. Language and ethnicity: A case study of Missing in Assam with particular reference to Dhemaji. 7. KelhuoVinuo Suokhrie. Internal variation in Angami: A case study of Kohima village. www.du.ac.in Page 2 8. Neethu Sunny.A Sociolinguistic study of Malayalam in Cherukunnam. 9. Richa, Sharma. Phonetic Realizations of vowels in Indian English. 10. Bhattacharya, Pratibha .Voicing patterns in Delhi English. 11. Das, Bishakha. The lesser-known languages of Lohit district: A socio-historical investigation. 12. Laskar, Nazrin B. Contact between Tibeto-Burman and Indic: The case of Bishnupriya. Publications Profile Edited Works As a Chief Editor, Edited and published the following Journals: Asia Pacific Language Variation. Volume 6.2 John Benjamins Asia Pacific Language Variation. Volume 6.1 John Benjamins Book Chapters Forthcoming Satyanath, Shobha. Sociolinguistics of multicultural communities: What can be learned?in Katie Drager, Malcah Yaeger-Dror and Chris Cieri (eds., 2021).) Dimensions of Linguistic Variation. OUP Satyanath, Shobha. Perspectives on social life of language (tentative title). In Panda, Mishra, & Kóczy, (eds., 2021), Macro and micro-social variation in Asia-Pacific sign languages. Springer. Satyanath, Shobha. South Asia: Indo European languages. In Martin J. Ball and Rajend Mesthrie (Eds.). The Routledge Handbook of Sociolinguistics around the World, 2nd edition. Routledge. Published Satyanath, Shobha (2018). Kohima: Language variation and change in a small but diverse city in India. In Dick Smakman and Patrick (eds.) Urban Sociolinguistics: The city as a linguistic process and experience. Heinrich (eds.). Globalizing Sociolinguistics (pp. 95- 112). London and New York: Routledge. Satyanath, Shobha (2017). Mapping linguistic diversity in colonial Bengal. In Nicholos Ostler and Panchanana Mohanty (eds.), Language colonization and Endangerment: Long-tern effects, echoes and reactions. Proceedings of the 20th FEL Conference. England: Foundation for Endangered Languages (Dec 9-12, 2016) (pp. 27-32). ISBN 978-0-9560210-8-3. Satyanath, S., & Sharma, R. (2016). The growth of English in Delhi: New perspectives in a multilingual setting. In J. Singh, A. Kantara & D. Cserző (Eds.), Downscaling culture: Revisiting intercultural communication (pp. 192-227). Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars. Satyanath, Shobha (2015). Language variation and change: The Indian experience. In D. Smakman & P. Heinrich (Eds.), Globalizing sociolinguistics (pp.107-122). New York: Routledge. Satyanath, Shobha and Nazrin Laskar (2009). Ethnicity, bilingualism and variable clitic marking in Bishnupriya Manipuri. In James N. Stanford and Dennis R. Preston (Eds.). Variation in Indigenous Minority languages (pp. 441- 462). John Benjamins. Satyanath, Shobha and Nazrin Laskar (2008). Lexicon in a contact language. In Stephen Morey, and Mark Post (Eds.). North East Indian Linguistics (pp. 75-92). New Delhi:Foundation/Cambridge University Press. www.du.ac.in Page 3 Satyanath, Shobha (2006). English in the new world: continuity and change, the case of personal pronouns in Guyanese English. In Parth Bhatt, and Ingo Plag (Eds.). The structure of Creole Words: Segmental, syllabic and morphological aspects (pp.179-200). Tubingen: Max Verlag Niemeyer. Satyanath, Shobha (2003). On the maintenance of transplanted Indian languages overseas. In Rekha Sharma, and E. Annamalai (Eds.). Indian diaspora: In search of identity (pp. 85-104). Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. Satyanath, Shobha (2003). A bibliography on Indians overseas. In Rekha Sharma, and E. Annamalai (Eds.). Indian diaspora: In search of identity (pp. 338-347). Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages Journal Articles Satyanath, Shobha (2021) Genealogies of Sociolinguistics in India’. Journal of Sociolinguistics (Wiley). DOI: 10.1111/josl.12496 Satyanath, Shobha (Forth). Language contact and Diffusion: Classifiers in Assamese and its contact varieties’ Journal of Language Contact. Satyanath, Shobha (Forth). Looking beyond the western horizons: Pedagogies of multilingualism. AMU (invited) Satyanath, Shobha. (2004-5). Postcolonial creole(s), decreolization, and Guyanese English. Sargasso (I): [Creolistics and Caribbean Languages], 113-140. Satyanath, Shobha (2001). Language change and transmission of knowledge across generation. Indian Linguistics (62): 73-88. Satyanath, Shobha (2000). Adequacy of creole languages: accounting for variation in the tense- aspect categories in Guyanese English. Vartavaha (5):1-44. Mysore: Central Institute of Indian Languages. Satyanath, Shobha (1992). Perceptual significance of acoustic cues in nasals in Burmese. Proceedings of the workshop on