Kapil Muni Tiwary

Kapil Muni Tiwary
Born Nainijor village, Bhojpur District, Bihar
Nationality Indian
Occupation Linguist

Kapil Muni Tiwary (born 1932) is a former professor and head of the department of Linguistics and Literature at Patna University[1] and currently a professor of English in Yemen.[2]

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Biography

Kapil Muni Tiwary was born in Nainijor village in the Bhojpur District of Bihar, India. He graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 1966 with a dissertation on grammar and phonology, Comparative reconstruction of Indo-Iranian sounds: On the basis of 'An Avesta grammar in comparison with Sanskrit, part 1' by A. V. Williams Jackson.

Tiwary is a scholar of Southeast Asian languages. He has published on such topics as echo words in Bhojpuri and has argued that echo-word constructions (in which "a word is repeated without its initial consonant, sometimes with a vowel change") can function as a kind of secret language.[3] He coined the term "institutionalized weeping" in a study of weeping among Tamil women.[4]

Tiwary's first book, Panini's description of Sanskrit nominal compounds, was published by Janaki Prakashan, Patna in 1984. Another book, Language Deprivation and the socially disadvantaged: with special reference to Bihar, was published by Janki Prakashan in 1994.[5]

Tiwary was one of the editors of a bi-annual journal of social sciences and humanities, Explorations.[6][7] He also edited an anthology of English prose, Aspects of English prose: an anthology, with R.C. Prasad in 1986.

Linguist

His articles and books on various branches of linguists have been of special interest for the scholars in India and abroad.[8][9][10][11]

References

  1. ^ Tiwary, K. M. (Autumn, 1978). "Tuneful Weeping: A Mode of Communication". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies 3 (3): 24–27. JSTOR 3346324. 
  2. ^ [1], http://www.yobserver.com/news-varieties/1004329.html, accessed on 12th March 2011
  3. ^ Sherzer, Joel (1987). "A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture". American Anthropologist 89 (2). http://www.jstor.org/stable/677756. 
  4. ^ Clark-Decès, Isabelle (2005). No one cries for the dead: Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions. University of California Press. p. 4. http://books.google.com/books?id=DhGoBlHexAsC&pg=PA4. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 
  5. ^ [2], openlibrary.org, accessed on 12 March 2011
  6. ^ [3], www.books.google.co.in, accessed on 27 March 2011
  7. ^ Cambridge University Press (1988). "Brief Notices". Language in Society 17 (03): 459-473. 
  8. ^ . p. 47. http://books.google.co.in/books?hl=en&lr=&id=8s9x_b_iig4C&oi=fnd&pg=PA39&dq=kapil+muni+tiwary&ots=Nrdpv7NwA3&sig=CTxrOhMA1_AOn7wUfOUfV5tauMk#v=onepage&q=kapil%20muni%20tiwary&f=false. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 
  9. ^ Crying shame: metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament. http://books.google.com/books?id=AWtK11BbTUAC&pg=PA249&dq=kapil+muni+m+tiwari&hl=en&ei=CCrFTuzeBsHXrQednIXRCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CDoQ6AEwAzgK#v=onepage&q&f=false. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 
  10. ^ Book= History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics. http://books.google.com/books?id=hQh0bC5RAe8C&pg=PA142&dq=K+M+Tiwary&hl=en&ei=ryPFTvb9HI-GrAeg6LWLBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=K%20M%20Tiwary&f=false. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 
  11. ^ American anthropology, 1971-1995: papers from the American anthropologist. http://books.google.com/books?id=UbQTsZnWY4AC&pg=PA514&dq=K+M+Tiwary&hl=en&ei=ryPFTvb9HI-GrAeg6LWLBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=2&sqi=2&ved=0CDQQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=K%20M%20Tiwary&f=false. Retrieved 17 November 2011. 

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