Name of the Department: Department of Linguistics
Year of Establishment : 1959
Head of the Department : Prof. Chanda Bain Contact No.- : 09479949601 (HoD) : 07582-265807 (office) Email Id: : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. |
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Departmental IQAC Profile
Criterion 1 :- Curricular Aspects
Criterion 2 :- Teaching-Learning and Evaluation
Criterion 3 :- Research , Innovations and Extension
Criterion 4 :- Infrastructure and Learning Resources
Criterion 5 :- Student Support and Progression
Criterion 6 :- Governance, Leadership and Management
Criterion 7 :- Institutional Values and Best Practices
About the Department :
The Department of Linguistics was established on 1st October, 1959 under the guidance and leadership of Prof. Babu Ram Saxena invited for the same by Pandit Dwarka Prasad Mishra, the then Vice Chancellor of this University. This University was the seventh University of India to establish the Department of Linguistics and to teach Linguistics at Undergraduate and Postgraduate levels. Besides Prof. Babu Ram Saxena the other founder faculty members of this department were Prof. Ramesh Chandra Mahrotra and Prof. Devi Shankar Dwivedi who joined the department as lecturers. The Department of Linguistics, since its inception, has been headed by many teachers of the department. Presently, the department is under the headship of Prof. Chanda Bain, Department of Hindi. Till date more than 25 scholars have been awarded Ph.D. degrees in the different field of Linguistics. At present, the department has three Assistant Professors who joined in 2013 from the leading universities of India. Effective steps are being taken by the faculty members to strengthen teaching and conduct research in the prominent areas of Linguistics such as Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Endangered Language Studies, Language Teaching and Evaluation, and Stylistics. A sound training in Linguistics can provide good opportunities to students in the fields of accent and voice training, translation, Language planning, lexicography, speech therapy and natural language processing.etc.
Past Heads of the Departments:
- Prof. Babu Ram Saxena 01.10.1959 - 14.11.1961
- Prof. Dhirendra Verma 15.11.1961 - 22.06.1965
- Prof. Devi Shankar Dwivedi 23.06.1965 - 05.11.1966
- Prof. Pawan Kumar Jain 06.11.1966 - 11.12.1966
- Prof. Bhagirath Mishra 12.12.1966 - 30.06.1972
- Prof. Pawan Kumar Jain 01.07.1972 - 28.05.1984
- Prof. Bhagwandin Mishra 29.05.1984 - 20.07.1987
- Prof. Kanti Kumar Jain 21.07.1987 - 11.12.1991
- Prof. Bhagwandin Mishra 12.12.1991 - 31.01.1998
- Prof. Radheyshyam Dubey 01.02.1998 - 31.08.2000
- Prof. Badriprasad 01.09.2000 - 30.06.2007
- Prof. Radhaballabh Tripathi 01.07.2007 - 13.08.2008
- Prof. Kusum Bhuria 14.08.2008 - 19.09.2008
- Prof. Rajmati Diwakar 10.09.2008 - 06.07.2010
- Prof. Usha Bhatnagar 07.07.2010 - 30.08.2012
- Prof. Anand Prakash Tripathi 01.09.2012 - 31.10.2013
- Prof. Chanda Bain 01. 11. 2013 - till date
Vision:
"To promote discipline of linguistics and implement some effective measures so as to preserve and document the endangered languages of India".
Mission:
- To inculcate the knowledge of language and linguistics among the students.
- To encourage students to understand and analyse the linguistic structures of different regional languages of India.
- To enrich the students with the knowledge of contribution of Indian thinkers in the field of linguistics.
- To develop interest among the students in understanding the endangered languages of India.
Faculty Members :
S. No. | Name |
Designation |
Degree (University / Institute from which awarded) |
Subject Specialization |
1. |
Dr. Abhigyan Dwivedi |
Asstt. Professor |
M.A., & Ph.D., (BHU, Varanasi) |
Computational Linguistics, Applied Linguistics |
2. |
Dr. Bablu Ray |
Asstt. Professor |
M.A., M.Phil. & Ph.D. (DU, Delhi) |
Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics & Stylistics |
3. |
Dr. Arvind Kumar Gautam |
Asstt. Professor |
M.A.(AMU, Aligarh) & Ph.D.,(LU, Lucknow) |
Phonetics, Semantics, Language Teaching |