Kapil Muni Tiwary

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]

Kapil Muni Tiwary
Born1932
Nainijor-Bishupur village, Bhojpur District, Bihar
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationLinguist

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
  1. Tiwary, K. M. (Autumn 1978). "Tuneful Weeping: A Mode of Communication". Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies. 3 (3): 24–27. doi:10.2307/3346324. JSTOR 3346324.
  3. Sherzer, Joel (1987). "A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture". American Anthropologist. 89 (2): 295–309. doi:10.1525/aa.1987.89.2.02a00010. JSTOR 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. ISBN 9780520938342.
  5. , openlibrary.org. Retrieved 12 March 2011
  6. "Language deprivation among the socially disadvantaged in Bihar". Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. 1989.
  7. , www.books.google.co.in. Retrieved 27 March 2011
  8. Cambridge University Press (1988). "Brief Notices". Language in Society. 17 (3): 459–473. doi:10.1017/s0047404500013038.
  9. "Caste Conflict: A View from Bhojpur". Explorations. Radha Devi Mahila Vidyapeeth, Sikandarpur, Muzaffarpur. 1 (1). 1987.
  10. Debra J. Occhi, Society for Linguistic Anthropology (U.S.) (1 January 1999). Languages of sentiment: cultural constructions of emotional substrates. John Benjamins Publishing Co, The Netherlands. p. 47. ISBN 9789027251381.
  11. James MacLynn Wilce (2009). Crying shame: metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament. Blackwell Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 9781444306255.
  12. Herman Parret, ed. (1975). History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics. p. 142.
  13. Regna Darnell, ed. (2002). American anthropology, 1971–1995: papers from the American anthropologist. American Anthropological Association, USA. p. 514. ISBN 0803266359.
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