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Kapil Muni Tiwary
Born1932 (1932)
Nainijor-Bishupur village, Bhojpur District, Bihar
Died26 April 2021(2021-04-26) (aged 88–89)
NationalityIndian
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania
OccupationLinguist

Kapil Muni Tiwary (1932 – 26 April 2021) was an Indian professor and head of the department of Linguistics and Literature at Patna University[1] and a professor of English in Yemen.[2]

Tiwary published many articles in Yemen Times Newspaper during the period 2000/2004. His articles were about Indian loan words into Arabic and vice versa.

Biography

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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 was 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]

Tiwary died on 26 April 2021.[5]

Books

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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.[6] This book was an outcome of a project of Indian Council of Social Science Research on which he was working in the eighties.[7]

Editor

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Tiwary was one of the editors of a bi-annual journal of social sciences and humanities, Explorations in 1987–88.[8][9] His article, Caste-Conflict: A View from Bhojpur, was published in Volume I, No. I of Exploration in 1987.[10]

Tiwary also edited an anthology of English prose, Aspects of English prose: an anthology, with R.C. Prasad in 1986.

Linguist

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His articles and books on various branches of linguists have been of special interest for the scholars in India and abroad.[11][12][13][14]

References

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  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.
  2. ^ "A message to students: Define your goals, follow you…". Archived from the original on 10 February 2013.
  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. ^ "Conversations with Prof Kapil Muni Tiwary 1". Arupedia. 29 May 2021. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
  6. ^ [1], openlibrary.org. Retrieved 12 March 2011
  7. ^ "Language deprivation among the socially disadvantaged in Bihar". Indian Council of Social Science Research, New Delhi. 1989.
  8. ^ "Explorations". 1987.
  9. ^ Cambridge University Press (1988). "Brief Notices". Language in Society. 17 (3): 459–473. doi:10.1017/s0047404500013038. S2CID 250438600.
  10. ^ "Caste Conflict: A View from Bhojpur". Explorations. 1 (1). Radha Devi Mahila Vidyapeeth, Sikandarpur, Muzaffarpur. 1987.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ James MacLynn Wilce (2009). Crying shame: metaculture, modernity, and the exaggerated death of lament. Blackwell Publishing. p. 249. ISBN 9781444306255.
  13. ^ Herman Parret, ed. (1975). History of linguistic thought and contemporary linguistics. p. 142. ISBN 9783110058185.
  14. ^ 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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