Assistant Professor

Dr. (Dr.) Sajad Hussain Wani is  a gold medalist from Kashmir University. He has two doctorate degrees in Linguistics and English literature.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 has been guiding research scholars in the field of Kashmiri phonology, Pashto phonology, Sociolinguistics , ELt and Computational Linguistics.

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} Impact Factor=
  • "“A Stylistic Analysis of Shamas Faqir’s Poetry”" Interdisciplinary Journal of Linguistics, IJL, 08(08): 215 -228 {ISSN: 0974-3421} Impact Factor=
  • "“Language,Media and Semanticity: A Case Study”" News Media Discourse : Issues and Perspectives., 01(01): 250 -267 {ISSN: 978-819297} Impact Factor=
  • "“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} Impact Factor=
  • "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} Impact Factor=
  • "“Divergence Patterns in Kashmiri to English Machine Translation: A Study ofQuestion Types.”" Aligarh Journal of Linguistics, 10(1): 115 -124 {ISSN: 2249-1511.} Impact Factor=
  • "“KashmiritoEnglishMachineTranslation:AStudyinTranslationDivergenceIssuesofPersonal and Possessive Pronouns”" Indian Journal of Multilingual Researchand Development, 2(1): 1 -9 Impact Factor=

Research Projects Details:

Title of the ProjectFunding AgencyDatedAmount (in Rs.)
“ 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
“ Language Contact in Kashmir: A Study of Linguistic, Sociolinguistic and Pedagogical Implications of Contact between English, Urdu and Kashmiri”RUSA, GOI05-12-2020320,000.00
“Developing an Online Trilingual Dictionary of English, Kashmiri and Urdu.”RUSA, GOI05-12-20203,500,000.00

Teaching:

DepartmentSubjectCourse TaughtSemester
LinguisticsMA Linguistics Ist semesterFunctional English1
LinguisticsMA Linguistics Ist semesterSemantics2