Kapil Muni Tiwary (1932-2021) was a professor and head of the department of Linguistics and Literature at Patna University[1] and a professor of English in Yemen.[2]
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 South 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]
Books
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 Janaki Prakashan in 1994.[5] This book was an outcome of a project of Indian Council of Social Science Research on which he was working in the eighties.[6]
Editor
Tiwary was one of the editors of a bi-annual journal of social sciences and humanities, Explorations in 1987–88.[7][8] His article, Caste-Conflict: A View from Bhojpur, was published in Volume I, No. I of Exploration in 1987.[9]
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.[10][11][12][13]
References
- ↑ Tuneful Weeping: A Mode of Communication. Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies({Template:Date).
- ↑ [1]
- ↑ A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture. American Anthropologist({Template:Year).
- ↑ No one cries for the dead: Tamil dirges, rowdy songs, and graveyard petitions{{#if:Clark-Decès|, Clark-Decès}. University of California Press(2005). ISBN 9780520938342
- ↑ [2], openlibrary.org. Retrieved 12 March 2011
- ↑ Language deprivation among the socially disadvantaged in Bihar. Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi.
- ↑ [3], www.books.google.co.in. Retrieved 27 March 2011
- ↑ Brief Notices. Language in Society({Template:Year).
- ↑ Caste Conflict: A View from Bhojpur. Explorations({Template:Year).
- ↑ Languages of sentiment: cultural constructions of emotional substrates{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. John Benjamins Publishing Co, The Netherlands(1 January 1999). ISBN 9789027251381
- ↑ Crying shame: metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. Blackwell Publishing(2009). ISBN 9781444306255
- ↑ History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}(1975). ISBN 9783110058185
- ↑ American anthropology, 1971–1995: papers from the American anthropologist{{#if:|, {{{last}}}}. American Anthropological Association, USA(2002). ISBN 0803266359
External links
- Kapil Muni Tiwary at Open Library
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- Tiwary, K.M. (1978). "Tuneful Weeping: A Mode of Communication" Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies.