| Professor
Yamuna Kachru  Publications
Books
An Introduction to Hindi Syntax 1966. University of
Illinois, Urbana, Illinois.
Studies in Hindi Linguistics (ed. with Braj B. Kachru).
1968. American Institute of Indian Studies, Delhi Office,
India.
Studies in a transformational Grammar of Hindi. 1968.
Dhanbad, India: East West Books.
Papers on Hindi Syntax, (ed.) Special Issue of
Studies in the Linguistics Sciences 1:2. 1971.
University of Illinois, Department of Linguistics, Urbana.
Topics in a Transformational Grammar of Hindi (in
Hindi). 1974. Agra: Central Institute of Hindi.
Aspects of Hindi Grammar. 1980. New Delhi: Manohar.
A Contemporary Grammar of Hindi. (in Hindi), 1980.
Macmillan Company of India.
Relational Grammar: An Introduction, (ed. with D.P.
Pattanayak, Director, CIIL). 1982. Central Institute of
Indian Languages. Mysore, India.
Intermediate Hindi (with Rajeshwari Pandharipande),
Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. 1983. [3rd reprint 1992]
Pragmatics and Language Learning. Monographs I –V
(edited with Lawrence F. Bouton). 1990-1994. Division of
English as an International Language, University of
Illinois, Urbana.
Language, Gender, and Power (ed.) Special Issue of Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences 25:2, Fall 1995.
World Englishes in Asian Contexts (coauthored
with Professor Cecil L. Nelson, Department of Languages,
Literatures and Linguistics, Indiana State University at
Terre Haute). Hong Kong University Press. Appearing in the
series “Asian Englishes” (Editor: Professor Kingsley
Bolton, Department of English, Stockholm University,
Sweden). [In Press; to be published in 2005]
Papers
1968
'The copula in Hindi.' Foundations of Language,
Supplementary Series VI:2.35-39.
'On the so-called conjunct verbs in Hindi.' Studies in
Hindi Linguistics, American Institute of Indian Studies,
Delhi, 58-64.
'Contemporary linguistic models and description of
Hindi.' Studies in Hindi Linguistics. American
Institute of Indian Studies, Delhi, 134-51.
'Nominal complement construction in Hindi.' Bhasa
Shiksan aur Bhasa Vijnan. Agra: Central Institute of
Hindi. 119-30.
1969
'A note on possessive construction in Hindi-Urdu.' Journal
of Linguistics 6:37-55.
1970
'The syntax of ko-sentences in Hindi-Urdu.' Papers in
Linguistics 2:2. 229-316. Linguistic Research, Inc.
1972
'Causative sentences in Indian languages.' A.M. Ghatage,
et.al. (eds.) Studies in Transformational Grammar. Poona:
Deccan College.
1973
'Causative sentence in Hindi revisited.' In Braj B.
Kachru, et al. (eds.) Issues in Linguistics: Papers in
honor of Henry and Renee Kahane. Urbana, Illinois:
University of Illinois Press. Pp. 377-93.
'Relative clause construction in Hindi.' (in Hindi). In
R.N. Srivastava, et al. (eds.) Bhasha. Delhi:
Government of India. (invited)
'Some aspects of pronominalization and relative clause
construction in Hindi-Urdu.' Studies in the Linguistic
Sciences 3:2. Fall 1973. 87-103. Urbana: Department of
Linguistics, University of Illinois.
'Theoretical linguistics and language pedagogy: the case
of South Asian languages.' In E. Polome, et.al. (eds.) Language
Testing and Criteria for linguistic Proficiency in South
Asian languages, Proceedings of the Austin Conference.
Austin, TX: 207-19.
1975
'The Semantics and Syntax of the causative construction
in English And South Asian languages: implications for
teaching English as a second language.' ERIC document ED119
528.
1976
'On the semantics of the causative construction in
Hindi-Urdu. In M. Shibatani (ed.) The Grammar of
Causative Constructions. Syntax and Semantics Series.
353-69. (invited)
'Defining "Equivalence" in contrastive
analysis; causative constructions in English and
Hindi-Urdu.' CIEFL Bulletin 12:1-13.
1977
'On reflexivization in Hindi-Urdu and its theoretical
implications.' Indian Linguistics 38:1.21-38. (with
Tej K. Bhatia).
'The Notion "subject': a note on Hindi-Urdu,
Kashmiri and Panjabi'. In M. K. Verma (ed.) The Notion of
Subjects in South Asian Languages. Madison, Wisconsin.
79-108. (with Braj B. Kachru and Tej K. Bhatia). (invited)
'Relational Grammar, Ergativity and Hindi-Urdu.' Lingua
41.217-38. (with Rajeshwari Pandharipande).
1978
'The emerging 'dialect' conflict in Hindi: a case of
glottopolitics." International Journal of the
Sociology of Language. 16.47-58. (with Tej K.
Bhatia)
'Conjunct verbs; verbs or verb phrases?' Proceedings
of the XIIth International Congress of Linguistics.
366-70.
'On relative clause formation in Hindi-Urdu'. Linguistics
207.5-26.
'Ergativity in selected South Asian languages.' (with
Rajeshwari Pandharipande) Studies in the Linguistic
Sciences 8:1.111-27. Also in South Asian Languages
Analysis 1. 1979. 193-210.
1979
'Notes on grammatical categories and participant roles in
Hindi-Urdu.' In E. Polome, et al. (eds.) Archibald S.
Hill Felicitation Volume. Vol II. (invited)
'The quotative in South Asian languages'. South Asian
Language Analysis 1. 63-78.
'Pragmatics and verb serialization in Hindi-Urdu'. Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences 9:2. Fall 1979. 157-69.
1980
'Toward a typology of compound verbs in South Asian
languages'. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 10:1.
Spring 1980. 113-24.
'The syntax of Dakhini Hindi-Urdu: a study in language
contact and language variation'. In Bh. Krishnamurti (ed.) South
Asia as a Linguistic Area. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
165-173.
1981
'Computer based instruction in elementary Hindi.' (with
Robert Hart and Cecil Nelson) Studies in Language
Learning 3. edited by Robert Hart. 54-73.
'On the syntax, semantics and pragmatics of the
conjunctive participle in Hindi-Urdu'. Studies in the
Linguistic Sciences 11:2. Fall 1981. 35-50.
'Transitivity and volitionality in Hindi-Urdu'. Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences 11:2. Fall 1981. 181-94.
1982
'Conjunct verbs in Hindi-Urdu and Persian'. South
Asian Review 6:3. 117-26.
'Relational grammar: an introduction.' In Y. Kachru and
D.P.Pattanayak (eds.) Central Institute of Indian Languages,
Mysore, India.
'Syntactic variation and language change: Eastern and
Western Hindi. Studies in the Linguistic Sciences 12:
2. Fall 1982. 87-96.
1983
'Linguistics and written discourse in particular
languages: contrastive studies: English and Hindi." Annual
Review of Applied Linguistics 1982. 3.50-77. (invited)
'Cross-cultural texts and interpretation'. Studies in
the Linguistic Sciences 13:2. Fall 1983. 57-72.
1985
'Discourse Analysis, Non-Native Englishes and Second
Language Acquisition Research, World Englishes 4:2.
223-232.
'Discourse strategies, Pragmatics and ESL: Where are we
going?' RELC Journal 16:2. 1-30. (Invited Forum
Paper)
1986
'Applied Linguistics and Foreign Language Teaching: A
Non-Western Perspective.' ERIC Reports ED 256 175. (1985) Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences 16:1. Spring 1986. 35-51.
'Style repertoire of Hindi poets: implications for
stylistic analysis'. In Omkar N. Koul (ed.) Language,
style and discourse. New Delhi: Bahri Publications.
47-61. (invited).
1987
'Cross-cultural texts, discourse strategies and discourse
interpretation.' Larry E. Smith (ed.) Discourse across
cultures: Strategies in World Englishes, Prentice-Hall.
87-100
'Ergativity, Subjecthood and Topicality in Hindi-Urdu'.
R.M.W. Dicon (ed.) Studies on Ergativity (a special
volume of Lingua), North-Holland Elsevier, The
Netherlands 387-401. (invited)
'Hindi-Urdu". Bernard C. Comrie (ed.) World's
Major Languages, Croom-Helm. 470-489. (invited)
'Toward a Bilingual Dictionary of Idioms: Hindi-English'.
R. Steele and T. Threadgold (eds.) Language Topics,
John Benjamins. 367-378. (invited)
'Impact of expanding domains of use on a standard
language: Contemporary Hindi in India'. Studies in the
Linguistic Sciences 17:1. 73-90.
1988
'Writers in Hindi and English". Alan C. Purves (ed.)
Contrastive Rhetoric: Theory and Case Studies. Written
Communication Annual, vol.3. Sage Publications 109-137.
(invited)
'Interpreting Indian English Expository Prose'. In Issues
and Developments in English Applied Linguistics 3.
39-50.
Hindi': 2500-word entry in Oxford International
Encyclopedia of Linguistics.(invited)
Cognitive and cultural styles in second language
acquisition': Annual Review of Applied Linguistics.
9. 1988. 149-163. (invited)
1989
'Corpus planning for modernization: Sanskritization and
Englishization of Hindi'. In Studies in the Linguistic
Sciences 19:1 (Spring 1989). 153-164.
'Modernization of Indian Languages: English in unplanned
corpus planning'. In Cheryl Roberts, et.al. (eds.) The
Proceedings of the 24th Annual Mid-America Linguistics
Conference.
'Entries on Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Indo-Aryan, and
Marathi for the Oxford Companion to the English Language edited
by Tom McArthur. (Invited).
'Code-mixing, style repertoire and language variation:
English in Hindi poetic creativity.' Special Issue on
Code-mixing: English across languages. Guest Editors: Tej K.
Bhatia and William C. Ritchie. World Englishes 8:3.
311-319.
1990
'Experiencer and other oblique subjects in Hindi'. In
Manindra K. Verma and K.P. Mohanan (eds.) Experiencer
Subjects in South Asian Languages.Stanford University,
Stanford, CA The Center for the Study of Language and
Information. 59-75.
'Hindi-Urdu' in Bernard Comrie (ed.) The Major
Languages of South Asia and the Middle East.
Routledge, 1990: 53-72. Reprinted from Bernard Comrie (ed.) World's
Major Languages. Croom Helm, 1987: 470-489).
1991
'Culture, Style and Discourse: Expanding Noetics in
English.' South Asian Language Review 1:2. 11-25.
'Writing in the other tongue: Expository prose in Indian
English'. In R.S. Gupta and K. Kapoor (eds.) English in
India: Issues and problems. Delhi: Academic Foundations.
227-246. (invited)
'Introduction: Symposium on Speech Acts in world
Englishes.' World Englishes 10:3. 295-298.
'Speech acts in world Englishes: Toward a framework for
research.' World Englishes 10:3. 299-306.
1992
'Culture, style and discourse: Expanding noetics of
English.' In B.Kachru (ed.) The Other Tongue: English
Across Cultures. University of Illinois Press. (2nd
edition) 340-352.
'Speech act in the other tongue: An integrated approach
to cross-cultural research.' In Larry Smith and S.N. Sridhar
(eds.) The extended family: English in global
bilingualism. Special issue of World Englishes
11:2-3, 1992. 235-240. (invited)
'The Indian face of Indian English: speech acts in the
other tongue.' Seminar, March 1992. 43-46. (invited)
'Language Maintenance, shift and accomodations:
Linguistic repertoire in South Asia'. In Edward Dimock, Braj
B. Kachru, Bh. Krishnamurti (eds.) Dimensions of
Sociolinguistics in South Asia: Papers in Honor of Gerald B.
Kelly, Delhi, Oxford IBH. 261-269. (invited)
Entry on S.M. Katre. In Encyclopedia of Language and
Linguistics, Oxford, Pergamon Press.
1993
'Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech
acts.' James E. Alatis (ed.) Language, communication and
social meaning. Georgetown University Monograph Series
on Languages and Linguistics 1992. 378-387. (invited)
'Verb serialization in syntax, typology and historical
change.' In M.K. Verma (ed.) Complex Predicates
in South Asian Languages, Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass.
'Notes on discourse markers in Hindi'. South Asian
Language Review 3:1. January 1993. 85-97.
1994
'Self, identity and creativity: Women writers in India.'
In Self as person in Asian theory and practice, Eds.
Roger T. Ames, Wimal Dissanayake and Thomas P. Kasulis.
State University of New York Press, Albany, NY. 335-356.
(invited)
'Crosscultural speech act research and the classroom.' Pragmatics
and Language Learning Monograph V, 1994. 39-51.
'Monolingual bias in SLA research' in TESOL Quarterly,
28: 4, 1994. 795-800. (invited)
1995
'Contrastive rhetoric in world Englishes.' English Today
11:1, January 1995. 21-31.
'Cultural meaning in world Englishes: Speech acts and
rhetorical styles.' In M.L. Tickoo (ed.) 1995. Language and
culture in multilingual societies: Viewpoints and visions.
Singapore: SEAMEO Regional Language Centre. Anthology Series
36. 176-193. (invited)
'Lexical exponents of cultural contact: Speech act verbs in
Hindi-English dictionaries.' In B. Kachru and Henry Kahane
(eds.) 1995. Cultures, ideologies, and the dictionary:
Studies in honor of Ladislav Zgusta. Tübingen: Max
Niemeyer Verlag. 261-274. (invited)
'Cultural meaning and rhetorical styles: Toward a framework
for contrastive rhetoric.' Barbara Seidlhofer and Guy Cook
(eds.) 1995. Principles and practice in applied
linguistics: Studies in honor of Henry G. Widdowson.
Oxford University Press, London. 171-184. (invited)
'Speech acts and rhetorical styles: Issues in world
Englishes.' Saran Kaur Gill (ed.) Proceedings of the
International English Language Education Conference.
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Language Center, Universiti Kebangsaan
Malaysia. 81-95.
'Current naming practices in northern India.' Ernst Eichler,
Gerold Hilty, Heinrich Löffler, Hugo Steiger and Ladislav
Zgusta (eds.) Name Studies: An international handbook of
onomastics Vol I. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter.
671-678. (invited)
'World Englishes and linguistic research.' Journal of
Pragmatics. 24, 1995. Discussion: On 'new/non-native'
Englishes: A gamelan. 305-308.(invited)
1996
'Language and cultural meaning: Expository writing in South
Asian English.' Robert J. Baumgardner (ed.) South Asian
English: Structure, Use and Users. In the series
"English in the Global Context," University of
Illinois Press, Urbana, IL. 127-140.
Introduction. Language, Gender and Power. Special
issue of Studies in the Linguistic
Sciences 25:2. Fall 1995. 1-8.
'Language Research in Multilingual India.' The Book
Review XIX:8, August 1995. 14-15.
'Kachru revisits contrasts.' English Today 12:1.
January 1996. 41-44.
'Cross-cultural writing and rhetorical styles: Toward a
socially realistic contrastive
rhetoric.' Issues and Developments in English Applied
Linguistics 8. 9-22.
'Culture, variation and languages of wider communication:
The paradigm gap.' James E. Alatis, Carolyn A. Straehle,
Maggie Ronkin, and Brent Gallenberger (eds.) Linguistics,
language acquisition, and language variation: Current trends
and future prospects. Georgetown University Round Table on
Languages and Linguistics 1996. 178-195. (invited)
'Culture in rhetorical styles: contrastive rhetoric and
world Englishes.' Neil Mercer and Joan Swann (eds.) Learning
English: Development and diversity. London: Routledge. The
Open University Series on The English Language: Past, Present
and Future. 305-314.
1997
'Culture and argumentative writing in world Englishes.'
Michael Forman and Larry E. Smith (eds.) World Englishes
2000. University of Hawaii Press. 48-67. (Invited)
'Cultural meaning and contrastive rhetoric in English
education.' Vijay Bhatia (ed.) Symposium on Discourse and
Genre. In World Englishes 16:3. 337-350.
'Culture, variation and English language education.' Steve
Cromwell, Peggy Rule and Toshiko Sugino (eds.) On JALT 96:
Crossing Borders. The Proceedings of the JALT 1996
Conference on Language Teaching and Learning. Tokyo, 1997.
199-210.
'Culture and communication in India.' S.N. Sridhar and
Nirmal Mattoo (eds.) Ananya. New York: The Association
of Indians in America. 645-663.
'Creativity in conversation: projecting cultural
identities.' The Daily Yomiuri January 6, 1997: 11.
1998
‘Culture and speech acts: Evidence from Indian and
Singaporean English.’ Studies in The Linguistic Sciences
28:1. 79-98.
'Context, creativity, style: strategies in Raja Rao's
novels.' Robert L. Hardgrave (ed.) Word as mantra: The art
of Raja Rao. New Delhi: Katha. 88-107. (Invited)
1999
'Culture, context and writing.' Eli Hinkel (ed.) Culture
in second language teaching and learning. Cambridge
University Press. 75-89 (Invited)
Entry on Hindi. Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia.
(approx. 700 words)
2000
‘Literacy, minority languages, and multilingual India.’
(with Kamal K. Sridhar) Studies in the Linguistic
Sciences 30.1. Special issue on Literacy and writing
systems in Asia. 149-165.
‘Discourse markers in Hindi: Cognitive and procedural
properties.’ In V. Swarajya Lakshmi (ed.) Festschrift
for B. Lakshmi Bai. Hyderabad: Osmania University.
(invited)
2001
Communicative styles in world Englishes. Ariels-Departures
and Returns—Essays for Edwin Thumboo. Edited by Tong
Chee Kiong and Robbie B.H. Goh. Oxford University Press.
267-284. (invited)
Discourse competence in world Englishes. In The Three
Circles of English. Edited by Edwin Thumboo. UniPress,
The Centre for the Arts, National University of Singapore.
341-355.
World Englishes and rhetoric across cultures. Asian
Englishes: an International Journal of the Sociolinguistics
of English in Asia/Pacific. Winter 2001. 54-71.
2002
Entry on Hindi. International Encyclopedia of
Linguistics. (2nd edition; in press; 2600 words)
2003
Conventions of politeness in plural societies. In Anglophone
Cultures in South-East Asia: Appropriations, Continuities,
Contexts. Rüdiger Ahrens, David Parker, Klaus
Stierstorfer and Kowk-Kan Tam (editors). Heidelberg,
Germany: Universitätsverlag Winter Heidelberg. 39-53.
2004
World Englishes and language education. For Dialects,
Englishes, Creoles, and Education. Ed. Shondel Nero.
Lawrence Erlbaum (in press)
Context, competence and curriculum in world Englishes.
In Gary French and James D’Angelo (eds.) World
Englishes in the Classroom. Chukyo University, Nagoya,
Japan, pp. 34-51.
2005
Learning and teaching of world Englishes. For Research
in Second Language Learning and Teaching. Ed. Eli
Hinkel. Mahwa, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 155-73.
Language Education Policy in South Asia. In Encyclopedia
of Languages and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Chief Ed.
Keith Brown, Cambridge University. Oxford, UK: Elsivier.
(in press)
Pedagogical Grammar. Encyclopedia of Languages and
Linguistics, 2nd Edition. In Encyclopedia of Languages
and Linguistics, 2nd edition. Chief Ed. Keith Brown,
Cambridge University. Oxford, UK: Elsivier. (in press)
Reviews
G. B. Dhall: Dhvani-Vignan. Indian
Linguistics. 1959.
H. Bahri: Persian influence on Hindi. Allahabad.
Indian Linguistics. 1970.
Peter Gaeffke; Intersuchungen zur syntax des Hindi.
The Hague: Mouton and Co., 1967. Language 46:4.
1970.
Joshua A. Fishman: Bilingual education: an
international sociological perspective. Language 54:3.1978.
774-75.
Nehls, Dietrich, ed. Studies in descriptive English
grammar and Studies in contrastive linguistics and
error analysis: the theoretical background.
Heidelberg: Julius Groos. 1978, 1979. Modern Language
Journal 1981. 65: 232.
Gass, Susan and L. Selinker (eds.) Language Transfer
and Language Learning. World Englishes 5.1.
1986.
Review of Amrit Rai: A house divided: The origin and
development of Hindi-Urdu. Delhi: Oxford University
Press. 1991. Language in Society 22:4. 1993.
599-602
Review of Larry Selinker: Rediscovering
interlanguage. London and New York: Longman, In the
series on Applied Linguistics and Language Study. 1992. World
Englishes 12:2. 1993. 265-268.
Review of Rajend Mesthrie: English in Language
Shift: The history, structure and sociolinguistics of
South African Indian English. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press. 1992. Language in Society
23:4. 1994. 587-591.
Review of Knowles, Gerry, Anne Wichmann, and Peter
Alderson (eds) Working with Speech: Perspectives on
research into the Lancaster/IBM Spoken English Corpus.
London: Longman. 1996. Studies in the Linguistic
Sciences. Volume 29:2 (Fall, 1999) (in press)
Review of McEnery, Tony and Andrew Wilson. Corpus
Linguistics. Edinburgh Textbooks in Empirical
Linguistics. Edinburgh University Press. 1996. Studies
in the Linguistic Sciences. Volume 29:2 (Fall, 1999)
(in press)
WORK IN PROGRESS
Books
Hindi Grammar. London Oriental and African Language
Library, John Benjamins (due in October 2005)
World Englishes Across Cultures. Lawrence Erlbaum (due
in 2005).
Bilingual Dictionary of Idioms: Hindi-English (under
preparation)
Culture and Rhetorical Styles (under preparation)
Papers on Hindi (under preparation)
Prathmik Hindi (Elementary Hindi), A textbook for
beginning Hindi instruction (with Rajesh Kumar and Vijay K.
Thakur; First draft completed)
Chapters in Books/Papers in Journals
Learning and teaching of world Englishes. For Research
in Second Language Learning and Teaching. Ed. Eli Hinkel.
Lawrence Erlbaum. (completed October 2004)
Language in social and ethnic interaction. In Language
in South Asia. Edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru
and S.N.Sridhar, Cambridge Unviersity Press. (completed
October 2004)
Hindi-Urdu-Hindustani. In Language in South Asia.
Edited by Braj B. Kachru, Yamuna Kachru and S.N.Sridhar,
Cambridge Unviersity Press. (completed in March 2004)
Hindi syntax 1990-present. For Lingua (under
preparation)
Speech acts and rhetorical strategies. In Handbook
of World Englishes. Edited by Braj B. kachru, Yamuna
Kachru and Cecil Nelson. Blackwell Publishing. (due in
June 2005)
English in Hindi Film lyrics. To appear in a special
issue of World Englishes (due in May 2005)
OTHER SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES (1985-)
Partial Listing of Papers Presented
1985
'Language Dynamics and Traditional multilingual
Societies: Toward a Reconsideration of Direction of
Research.' Syracuse University, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, May 15.
1986
Several lectures at Delhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Meerut and
Patna Universities on current research.
1987
'On trascreating conventions in Indian English
Writing.' Precession on Discourse in Contact and Context,
Georgetown University Roundtable on Languages and
Linguistics, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. March
12, 1987.
'Writing Conventions in Non-native Englishes.'
International Association of Teachers of English as a
Foreign Language. Brussels, Belgium. March 12, 1987.
'Interpreting Indian English expository prose'. Session
on Discourse Analysis and Stylistics: Cultural and
Functional Variety, 8th World Congress of Applied
Linguistics, Sydney, Australia, August 17.
'Applied Linguistics and South Asia: Issues and
Prospects'. Panel on Applied Linguistics in South Asia,
8th World Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney,
Australia, August 17, 1987.
'Convergence and change in a national language.' Poster
session, 8th World Congress of Applied Linguistics,
Sydney, Australia, August 18.
'Hindi as a language of wider communication.' Invited
presentation at the Symposium on Issues in the Spread of
Languages of Wider Communication, 8th World Congress of
Applied Linguistics, Sydney, Australia, August 20.
1988
'Implications of teaching a standard variety as mother
tongue: Evidence from the Hindi Area.' Keynote speech at
the International Conference on Language and National
Development: The Case of India, Osmania University,
Hyderabad, India, January 5.
'Interpreting and understanding Indian English
expository prose.' Panel on World Englishes: Issues of the
Eighties. TESOL Convention, Chicago, March 9.
'Oblique subjects in Hindi': Conference on Experiencer
Subjects in South Asian Languages. Madison, Wisconsin.
November 4, 1988.
1989
'Language and cultural meaning: Discourse in South
Asian English'. International Conference on English in
South Asia. Islamabad, Pakistan. January 8, 1989.
'Language and cultural meaning: Expository prose in
South Asian English'. Panel on World Englishes: Issues and
Resources. TESOL Convention, San Antonio, Texas. March 9,
1989.
'Verb serialization in South Asian and West African
Languages'. Conference on African Linguistics, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. April 20, 1989.
'Serial verbs in syntax, typology and historical
change'. Special session on Complex Predicates, SALA
Roundtable, University of Wisconsin at Madison, June 2,
1989 (invited)
'Linguistic and discourse structural conventions:
student essays in Indian English'. Panel on Discourse in
South Asian Languages, SALA Roundtable, University of
Wisconsin at Madison, June 3, 1989.
'Self, identity and creativity: Women writers in
India'. Conference on the Perception of Self: East and
West, East-West center, Honolulu, HI, August 16, 1989
(invited).
'Modernization of Indian Languages: English in
unplanned corpus planning'. Midwest Conference on
Linguistics, University of Northern Iowa at Cedar Falls,
October 7, 1989.
1990
'World Englishes: Parameters of Language Variation'.
TESOL Convention, San Fransisco, March 7, 1990.
'Discourse strategies in South Asian Languages'. Panel
on Perspectives on Applied Linguistics in South Asia, AILA
90, Thessaloniki, April 16, 1990.
'Culture in communicative language teaching'. AILA
Scientific Commission on Foreign Language Teaching
Methodology and Teacher Education, AILA 90, Thessaloniki,
April 17, 1990.
'Cultural Meaning in Discourse; "Style of
Stance" in Indian English'. Section meeting, AILA 90,
Thessaloniki, April 18, 1990.
'Applied Linguistics and communicative language
teaching'. Interest Group on Communicative Language
Teaching: Model, Curriculum, Course Design. AILA 90,
Thessaloniki, April 20, 1990.
1991
'Speech acts in the other tongue.' Paper presented at
the Fifth Annual International Conference on Pragmatics
and Language Learning, University of Illinois, Urbana,
April 6, 1991.
'Speech acts in the other tongue: An integrated
approach to cross-cultural research.' Panel on Discourse
in the Other Tongue. SALA Roundtable, May 25, 1991.
1992
'Speech acts in world Englishes: toward a framework for
research', Paper presented at the Annual Conference of
American Association for Applied Linguistics, Seattle,
Washington, February 29, 1992.
'Social meaning and creativity in Indian English speech
acts.' Paper presented at the Georgetown University
Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics, Georgetown,
Washington D.C., April 23, 1992 (invited)
'Social meaning and language crossover.' Paper
presented at the Conference on Culture and Literature:
Issues of Interpretation and Comprehension, East-West
Center, Honolulu, HI, May 11, 1992 (invited)
The contrastive rhetoric hypothesis and pluricentricity
of English: Are they compatible?" Presented at
Midwest Modern Language Association Meeting, St. Louis,
November 6, 1992
1993
'Crosscultural speech act research and the classroom.'
Plenary talk presented at the Seventh Annual International
Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning, Urbana,
IL., April 2, 1993.
Comments on "Computer-based approaches to issues
in applied linguistics" by Douglas Biber, in the
Panel on Corpus Linguistics. American Association of
Applied Linguistics, Atlanta, GA, April 17, 1993 (invited)
1994
'World Englishes and ESL terxtbooks: Issues of cultural
awareness.' American Association of Applied Linguistics,
Baltimore, MD, March 7, 1994.
'Culture, meaning and rhetorical style: writing in
world Englishes.' Conference on College Composition and
Communication, Nashville, TN, March 18, 1994. (Invited)
'Researching crosscultural pragmatics: Approaches and
methods.' Plenary talk presented at the Parasession on
Research in Pragmatics, Eighth International Conference on
Pragmatics and Language Learning, Urbana, IL, March 31,
1994.
'World Englishes and interlanguage: Power and method in
linguistic resarch.' Panel on Interlanguage, First
International Association of World Englishes Conference,
Urbana, IL, April 1, 1994.
'Speech acts and rhetorical styles: Issues in world
Englishes.' Plenary talk presented at the International
English Language Education Conference, Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, August 17, 1994.
1995
'Culture and speech acts: Evidence from Indian and
Singaporean English.' Paper presented at the annual
meeting of the American Association for Applied
Linguistics, Long Beach CA, March 28, 1995.
'Cultural meaning and rhetorical styles: Issues in
writing research.' Paper presented at TESOL '95, Long
Beach, CA, March 30, 1995.
'Teaching for communication in EFL contexts.' EFL
Interest Section. Invited presentation at TESOL '95, Long
Beach, CA, March 31, 1995.
'Multicultural sensitivity in ESL textbooks.' Paper
presented at TESOL '95, Long Beach, CA. March 31, l995.
'Culture and communicative styles in world Englishes.'
Plenary talk presented at the RELC Seminar '95. Singapore,
April 17, 1995.
'Cultural meaning in expository and argumentative
writing.' Workshop on Issues in Discourse and Genre
Analysis, Second International Conference on world
Englishes, Nagoya Japan, May 25, 1995.
'Cultural sensitivity and English textbooks: A
crosscultural study.' Second International Conference on
World Englishes, Nagoya, Japan, May 25, 1995.
'Crosscultural speech act research and the classroom.'
Department of English, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki,
Japan, June 2, 1995 (invited)
1996
'Culture, variation and languages of wider
communication: The paradigm gap.' Georgetown University
Roundtable on Languages and Linguistics. Georgetown
University, Washington, D.C. March 15, 1996 (invited)
'World Englishes and SLA: Parallelism or Intersection?'
In the Colloquium on "Community Connections: SLA and
World Englishes". American Association for Applied
Linguistics, Chicago, March 25, 1996 (invited)
'Culture, context and writing in South Asia:
Argumentation/Persuasion'. In Panel on South Asian
Lingusitics, International Congress of Applied
Linguistics, Jyväskylä, Finalnd, August 5, 1996.
'Culture, Variation and English Language Education.' In
Japan Association for Language Teaching Conference,
Hiroshima, Japan, November 2, 1996.
'Creativity in Conversation: Projecting identity.' In
Workshop on 'World Englishes: Models, Creativity, and
Identities' jointly conducted with Braj B. Kachru, Japan
Association for Language Taching Confernce, Hiroshima,
Japan, November 2, 1996.
'Teaching writing conventions.' In workshop on
'Teaching World Englishes' conducted jointly with Braj B.
Kachru, Japan Association for Language Teaching
Conference, Hiroshima, November 3, 1996.
'Context of culture in world Englishes.' In Language of
Leadership Forum, East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawaii,
November 7, 1996.
Culture and argumentation. Plenary paper presented at
the Third International Conference of the International
Association for World Englishes, Honolulu, Hawaii,
December 19, 1996.
1997
World Englishes and second language acquisition. Paper
presented at the SALA 18 (South Asian Language Analysis
Conference), New Delhi, January 8, 1997.
Discourse Competence in World Englishes: Implications
for Languages of Wider Communication. Paper presented at
The Three Circles of English: International Association
for World Englishes Conference, December 17, 1997.
1998
Culture and language. Presentation at the Seminar on
Mind, Brain and Language. Center for Advanced Study,
University of Illinois, February 4, 1998.
Multicultural sensitivity in ESL textbooks. Lecture at
Hong Kong University MA in English Studies course,
December 2, 1998.
Politeness across cultures. City University of Hong
Kong, December 8, 1998.
1999
Politeness across cultures revisited. International
Association for World Englishes Conference. Tokyo, July
30, 1999.
2000
Discourse markers in Hindi. Inaugural plenary at the
symposium on Discourse Analysis: Aspects, Issues and
Themes Delhi University, March 13, 2000.
On definite reference in world Englishes. Plenary at
14th Annual conference on Pragmatics and Language
Learning, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
April 14, 2000.
Definite and unique reference in world Englishes.
International Association for World Englishes Conference.
December 14, 2000. Portland, Oregon.
2001
Cultural constructions of politeness: Discourse in
plural societies. Plenary at the International Conference
on World Languages in Multilingual Contexts. Hyderabad,
India. January 5, 2001.
Conventions of politeness in plural societies. Invited
talk at Anglophone Cultures in South-East Asia:
Appropriations, Continuities, Contexts, October 10, 2001
2002
Cultural contexts and speech acts in South Asia.
Professor RN Srivastava Memorial Lecture, University of
Delhi, January 18, 2002
2003
Context, competence and curriculum in world Englishes.
Presented at the University of Chukyo, Nagoya, Japan, at
the Workshop on World Englishes on December 7, 2003.
Corpus linguistics and applied linguistics. Presented
at the University of Delhi, Delhi, India, at the
International Conference on Applied Linguistics in the
Global World, December 12, 2003.
2004
English in Hindi film music. Presented at the ‘Workshop
on Popular Culture, Linguistic Hybridity and Change’,
Tenth International Conference of the International
Association for World Englishes, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, July 18, 2004.
Partial Listing of Panels, colloquia and
workshops organized
Panel on Applied Linguistics in South Asia, 8th World
Congress of Applied Linguistics, Sydney, Australia. August
17, 1987.
Panel on 'Teaching World Englishes: Theory and
Practice' (with Larry E. Smith, East-West Center,
Honolulu, HI) TESOL Convention, San Antonio, TX, March 9,
1989.
Interest Group on 'Communicative Language Teaching:
Model, Curriculum, Course Design' (with Sandra Savignon),
AILA 90, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 20, 1990.
Discourse in the Other Tongue. Panel organized for SALA
Roundtable 1991. University of Illinois, Urbana, May 25,
1991.
Colloquium on English in Textbooks: Ideological,
Semiotic and Pedagogical Perspectives. (with Jane Nicholls)
AAAL 94. Baltimore, MD, March 7, 1994.
Colloquium on ESL Textbooks: Ethical considerations in
Cross-cultural Settings. TESOL '95, Long Beach,
California. March 30, 1995.
Critical Linguistics and Language Education. Panel
organized for International Congress of Applied
Linguistics, Jyväskylä, Finaland, August 6, 1996.
MEMBERSHIP IN HONOR SOCIETIES
Golden Key Honor Society
LISTINGS
Who's Who of American Women. 11th ed. 1979-80. p. 425.
Who's Who in the World. 5th ed. 1980-81. p.491.
Who's who in America. 41st ed. 1980-81. p. 1758.
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