Assistant Professor

Dr. (Dr.) Sajad Hussain Wani is  a gold medalist from Kashmir University. He has been teaching at the department of Linguistics, university of Kashmir from last sixteen (16) years.  He has been teaching as a guest faculty across different faculties of the Kashmir University including faculty of Law, faculty of Education and faculty of Electronics and Instrumentation Technology and IGNOU.

 HE has worked on many national and international projects  with reputed institutes like  National Foreign Language Centre (NFLC), University of Maryland, USA and Centre for Development of Advanced Computation (C-DAC), Pune in the capacity of  a Pedagogic Expert, translator and transliterator. 

He is working as a principal investigator of a major research project sponsored by RUSA, MHRD, Govt of India entitled “ Language Contact in Kashmir: A Study of Linguistic, Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Implications of Contact between English, Urdu and Kashmiri” He is also working as Co-Principal Investigator in the major project sponsored by RUSA, MHRD, Govt of India entitled entitled “Developing an Online Trilingual Dictionary of English, Kashmiri and Urdu.” 

Faculty Details

  • Mobile 9906802696
  • Email wani.sajad@gmail.com, Sajadw@uok.edu.in
  • Administrative position Held Academic Counsellor, Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir, Nodal Officer, DIQA, Associate Editor,IJL, Mentor,Department of Linguistics, University of Kashmir,
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Research Papers Published

  • ")“Mass Media, Language Attitudes and Language Interaction Phenomena: A Study in Code Switching, Code Mixing and Teaching Process”" Teaching English as a Second Language: A Language Pedagogy for New Century,2nd Edition., 01(01): 309 -324 {ISSN: 978-81-203}
  • "“A Stylistic Analysis of Shamas Faqir’s Poetry”" Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, IJL, 08(08): 215 -228 {ISSN: 0974-3421}
  • "“Language,Media and Semanticity: A Case Study”" News Media Discourse : Issues and Perspectives., 01(01): 250 -267 {ISSN: 978-819297}
  • "“Sufi Poetry and Symbolism: From a River to the Divine Dark in Shamas Faqir’s Poetry”" Language in India, 16(02): 200 -221 {ISSN: 1930-2940}
  • "Search for a Meaningful Existence and Quest for Self: The Study of Amitav Ghosh's Novels, The Glass Palace and In an Antique Land" Dogo Rangsang Research Journal, 10(7): 23 -36 {ISSN: 2347-7180}
  • "“Divergence Patterns in Kashmiri to English Machine Translation: A Study ofQuestion Types.”" Aligarh Journal of Linguistics, 10(1): 115 -124 {ISSN: 2249-1511.}
  • "“KashmiritoEnglishMachineTranslation:AStudyinTranslationDivergenceIssuesofPersonal and Possessive Pronouns”" Indian Journal of Multilingual Researchand Development, 2(1): 1 -9

Research Projects Details:

Title of the ProjectFunding AgencyDatedAmount (in Rs.)
“Language Use and Language Attitudes, and their Determinants: A Sociolinguistic Study of Bursho, Pakhtoon and Tibetan immigrants in Kashmir.”ICSSR NEW DELHI15-06-2020200,000.00
“ Language Contact in Kashmir: A Study of Linguistic, Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Implications of Contact between English, Urdu and Kashmiri”RUSA, GOI05-12-20203,250,000.00
“Developing an Online Trilingual Dictionary of English, Kashmiri and Urdu.”RUSA, GOI05-12-20203,500,000.00

Research Scholars:

NameCourseStatusNature
Majeed Ahmad DarPh.D Awarded Whole Time
Majid Ahmad DarPh.D Awarded Whole Time

Teaching:

DepartmentSubjectCourse TaughtSemester
LinguisticsMA LinguisticsFunctional English1
LinguisticsMA LinguisticsSemantics2
LinguisticsMA LinguisticsLanguage Processing4