Rajendra Singh
Biographic Data
| ID | 3583040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rajendra Singh |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rajendra |
| FAMILY NAME | Singh |
| SIGNATURE | SINGH R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3301-0083 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 70 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 110 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 65 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 5 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1970 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Analyzing the Relationship Between Product Buying Behavior and Individual Salary
This paper investigates the correlation between individual salary levels and product buying behavior through a comprehensive analysis employing both classification and regression techniques. The study aims to discern patterns and predict future buying behavior based on the income of consumers. In the classification analysis, various demographic and socio-economic factors are utilized to classify individuals into different income brackets. This st…
A Mixed Methods Exploration of Young Women’s Agency and Mental Health during Covid-19 in Low-Income Communities in Mumbai, India
Pandemic stress was difficult for low-income AGYW in Mumbai. Mitigating programs for COVID-19 control helped address acute needs and enable capabilities. Exploring similar themes among a broader population of youth can help design strategies and opportunities for young people in low-income communities during health emergencies
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India
Geriatric Population During the Covid-19 Pandemic
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic wreaked havoc worldwide, with more than 20 million confirmed cases and nearly 0. 75 million deaths as of 10th August 2020. Various factors determine the severity and symptoms of this infection. Older age and underlying diseases are the challenges being faced in controlling and treating COVID-19. In 2019, 703 million of the global population was older than 65 years of age. The estimated mortality du…
Multilevel Perspectives on Female Sterilization in Low-Income Communities in Mumbai, India
Surgical sterilization is the primary method of contraception among low-income women in India. This article, using qualitative analysis of key informant, in-depth interviews, and quantitative analyses, examines the antecedents, process, and outcomes of sterilization for women in a low-income area in Mumbai, India. Family planning policies, socioeconomic factors, and gender roles constrain women's reproductive choices. Procedures for sterilization…
Community Gender Norms Change as a Part of a Multilevel Approach to Sexual Health Among Married Women in Mumbai, India
Inequitable gender norms in societies and communities negatively contribute to women’s sexual and reproductive health. While the need for change in gender norms is well recognized, the task is highly challenging in terms of intervention design, implementation and assessment of impact. This paper describes a methodology for identification of gender norms, the design of community level intervention, community participation and the assessment of int…
Women's empowerment and its differential impact on health in low-income communities in Mumbai, India
This paper examines the relationship of empowerment to women's self-reported general health status and women's self-reported health during pregnancy in low-income communities in Mumbai. The data on which this paper is based were collected in three study communities located in a marginalised area of Mumbai. We draw on two data sources: in-depth qualitative interviews conducted with 66 married women and a survey sample of 260 married women. Our ana…
Motivations for Entry Into Sex Work and Hiv Risk Among Mobile Female Sex Workers in India
This paper assesses the reasons for entry into sex work and its association with HIV risk behaviours among mobile female sex workers (FSWs) in India. Data were collected from a cross-sectional survey conducted in 22 districts across four high HIV prevalence states in India during 2007–2008. Analyses were limited to 5498 eligible mobile FSWs. The reasons given by FSWs for entering sex work and associations with socio-demographic characteristics we…
Indicators of Mobility, Socio-Economic Vulnerabilities and HIV Risk Behaviours Among Mobile Female Sex Workers in India
This paper examines the relationship between indicators of mobility, socio-economic vulnerabilities, and HIV risk behaviours among 5,498 mobile female sex workers (FSWs) living in the four high HIV prevalence states in India. Female sex workers with greater degree of mobility reported significantly more often than the FSWs with lesser degree of mobility that they experienced physical violence, and consumed alcohol prior to sex. Further, FSWs with…
A methodology for building culture and gender norms into intervention
Treatment Seeking, Vaginal Discharge and Psychosocial Distress Among Women in Urban Mumbai
Community-Level HIV/STI Interventions and Their Impact on Alcohol Use in Urban Poor Populations in India
Alcohol Use, Sexual Risk Behavior and STIs Among Married Men in Mumbai, India
Community Street Theatre as a Tool for Interventions on Alcohol Use and Other Behaviors Related to HIV Risks
Multilingualism, sociolinguistics and theories of linguistic form
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
Multilevel Perspectives on Community Intervention
This paper explores the meaning and applicability of multilevel interventions and the role of ethnography in identifying intervention opportunities and accounting for research design limitations. It utilizes as a case example the data and experiences from a 6‐year, NIMH‐funded, intervention to prevent HIV/STI among married men in urban poor communities in Mumbai, India. The experiences generated by this project illustrate the need for multilevel …
On Retrieving the Baby1
In his recent critique of contemporary Translation Theory (TT), Singh (2005) argues that (1) as things stand, contemporary TT is not really a theory of translation but an exploration that seems to simply assume that the various uses, literal and metaphorical, of the word ‘translation’ and of the techniques employed in what languages normally refer to as translation delimit an interesting domain of which one can construct a theory and (2) one of t…
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It brings t…
Annual Review of South Asian Languages and Linguistics
The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (2006)
Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics 2006
Men’s Extramarital Sex, Marital Relationships and Sexual Risk in Urban Poor Communities in India
The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics (2005)
South Asia is home to a large number of languages and dialects. Although linguists working on this region have made significant contributions to our understanding of language, society, and language in society on a global scale, there is as yet no recognized international forum for the exchange of ideas amongst linguists working on South Asia. The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics is designed to be just that forum. It will bring to…
The Yearbook Of South Asian Languages And Linguistics 2004 (The Yearbook of South Asian Languages and Linguistics)
Government and code-mixing
The aim of this paper is to argue that the process of code-mixing is constrained by the government relation that holds between the constituents of a sentence. The government constraint replaces a number of specific constraints that have been proposed in the literature to account for apparently ‘impossible’, ‘ungrammatical’ or ‘non-occurring’ types of intra-sentential switches. Code-mixing is a form of linguistic behaviour which produces utterance…
Multilevel Perspectives on Community Intervention
This paper explores the meaning and applicability of multilevel interventions and the role of ethnography in identifying intervention opportunities and accounting for research design limitations. It utilizes as a case example the data and experiences from a 6‐year, NIMH‐funded, intervention to prevent HIV/STI among married men in urban poor communities in Mumbai, India. The experiences generated by this project illustrate the need for multilevel …
Men’s Extramarital Sex, Marital Relationships and Sexual Risk in Urban Poor Communities in India
On 'new/non-native' Englishes
On some 'redundant compounds' in modern hindi
Multilevel Perspectives on Female Sterilization in Low-Income Communities in Mumbai, India
Surgical sterilization is the primary method of contraception among low-income women in India. This article, using qualitative analysis of key informant, in-depth interviews, and quantitative analyses, examines the antecedents, process, and outcomes of sterilization for women in a low-income area in Mumbai, India. Family planning policies, socioeconomic factors, and gender roles constrain women's reproductive choices. Procedures for sterilization…
Community Gender Norms Change as a Part of a Multilevel Approach to Sexual Health Among Married Women in Mumbai, India
Inequitable gender norms in societies and communities negatively contribute to women’s sexual and reproductive health. While the need for change in gender norms is well recognized, the task is highly challenging in terms of intervention design, implementation and assessment of impact. This paper describes a methodology for identification of gender norms, the design of community level intervention, community participation and the assessment of int…
A methodology for building culture and gender norms into intervention
Rethinking linguistic relativity
We, they and us
Gumperz (1976) claims that the direction of a code-switch provides important clues regarding the intended illocutionary force of an utterance and that oppositions like warning/personal appeal and casual remark/personal statement can be seen as metaphoric extensions of the we/they code opposition. “What at the societal level,” he observes, “are seen as norms of language usage or symbolic affirmations of ethnic boundaries are transformed here and b…
Language, power, and cross-sex communication strategies in Hindi and Indian English revisited
A critical examination of the findings of Valentine (1985, 1986), studies devoted to cross-sex communication in Hindi and Indian English, is shown to reveal that the assumptions of the models on which such descriptions are based are not only nonexplanatory but also untenable. They fail because they ignore hierarchical power. Their failure "abroad" must be seen as an invitation to reflect on their alleged success back home. (Discourse, discourse s…
Prosodic adaptation in interphonology
Elicitation of Inter-english1
This paper advances and argues for the claim that the nature and structure of interlanguage cannot be properly understood without reference to the intuitions that language learners have about the grammaticality of their own production. We show that interlanguage speakers do not necessarily accept structures they commonly produce and argue that any reasonable account of interlanguage must reflect the difference between acceptable and unacceptable …
An analytical framework for state level water-energy-food nexus analysis in India
New/non-native’ Englishes revisited
Papers in contrastive linguistics
A Note on Multiple Negatives
T HIS PAPER, which is based on an acceptability experiment conducted by the author, discusses the status of certain multiple negative constructions in current American English.1 Questions of acceptability of linguistic units are questions of usage, to which there are basically two approaches: normative and descriptive. The aim of the descriptive approach is to describe the facts of linguistic acceptability as adequately as possible. The descripti…
Agrarian Social Structure and Peasant Unrest
Papers in contrastive linguistics
In Defence of Polysemy
The last straw∗
Bael fruit (Aegle marmelos)—A potential fruit for processing
Modern Hindi be
Old French Epenthesis and Syllabic Structure
In a provocative article in a recent issue of this journal, Walker (1978) accounts for Old French (OF) alternations of the type ancestre: ancessour, mendre: menour, prendre:prenons , and cosdre: cousons with a synchronic rule of consonant epenthesis given in (1) below: The purpose of this remark is to argue that even if OF can be said to have consonant epenthesis as a synchronic phonological process (for some convincing arguments to the contrary,…
Cohesion and Social Stratification
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Nativization and German - ieren
Historically, languages seem to have two kinds of affixes: those that stay put as unproductive (English - ity , Hindi - at , and German - sal ) and those that go on to increase their lexical domain (English - hood and non -, Hindi be -, German - ung ). When a native affix attaches to non-native lexical items it could not previously attach to, we say that the lexical items in question have moved into the native classification (cf. Allen 1978; Aron…
On some 'redundant compounds' in modern hindi
Elicitation of Inter-english1
This paper advances and argues for the claim that the nature and structure of interlanguage cannot be properly understood without reference to the intuitions that language learners have about the grammaticality of their own production. We show that interlanguage speakers do not necessarily accept structures they commonly produce and argue that any reasonable account of interlanguage must reflect the difference between acceptable and unacceptable …
John Lyons. Language, Meaning and Context. London
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We, they and us
Gumperz (1976) claims that the direction of a code-switch provides important clues regarding the intended illocutionary force of an utterance and that oppositions like warning/personal appeal and casual remark/personal statement can be seen as metaphoric extensions of the we/they code opposition. “What at the societal level,” he observes, “are seen as norms of language usage or symbolic affirmations of ethnic boundaries are transformed here and b…
Manjari Ohala. Aspects of Hindi Phonology. Delhi
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Modern Hindustani and Formal and Social Aspects of Language Contact
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On Denying a Reasonable Request in Hindi
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The Phonology of Epenthetic Segments
The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the occurrence of epenthetic vowels and consonants can be attributed to certain properties of syllable structure and some universal principles of syllabification interacting with (phonotactic) constraints, some of which are universal, others language-specific. The analysis of epenthesis proposed here is an elaboration and refinement of earlier proposals by Singh (1980, 1981a, 1981b, 1981c) and Pigg…
Grammatical Constraints on Code-Mixing
Paradis (1980:501) observes that bilingual language switching has been studied from many angles. Linguistic studies have investigated where in the sentence a switch is more likely to occur, whether within or between constituents, for instance. Social psychologists have probed the reason why a bilingual is likely to switch between languages. Sociolinguistic studies, by far the most numerous, have looked into the external social conditions that con…
Prosodic adaptation in interphonology
Government and code-mixing
The aim of this paper is to argue that the process of code-mixing is constrained by the government relation that holds between the constituents of a sentence. The government constraint replaces a number of specific constraints that have been proposed in the literature to account for apparently ‘impossible’, ‘ungrammatical’ or ‘non-occurring’ types of intra-sentential switches. Code-mixing is a form of linguistic behaviour which produces utterance…
Textual Cohesion in Hindi
The purpose of this paper is to summarize some preliminary research on textual cohesion in Hindi. The study of linguistic cohesion attempts to isolate linguistic devices used to ‘link’ sentences in a discourse. The present study was undertaken to find out exactly what cohesion devices are used in Hindi and how the linking texture of Hindi discourses differs from that of English. Although both Hindi and English use some of the same cohesion device…
On Repair Strategies and Constraints
Communication in a multilingual society
This article critically examines contemporary interactional studies of the cultural specifity of human language, conducted mostly in modern, multiethnic, industrialized societies (e.g., Clyne 1979; Gumperz 1982a, 1982b; Valdés & Pino 1981). What is often presented as the “linguistic evidence” for miscommunication in such contexts is in fact, we argue, the locus of the violations of the cooperative principles of discourse and human interaction, su…
How to Live with External Evidence in Phonology
As far as phonology and morphology are concerned, the available evidence indicates that the role of L 1 in shaping interlanguage is confined to those of its rules that are needed to account for its global alternations, alternations that are independent of its morphology (cf. Cearly 1974, Dressler 1985, Kilbury 1981, Singh and Ford 1982, 1987, Singh and Martohardjono 1989, Wode 1978, and Wurzel 1977, among others). The rules needed to account for …
Philosophy (43 works) · Linguistics (41 works) · Sociology (29 works) · Psychology (23 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (19 works) · Computer Science (17 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (13 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Hindi (11 works)