Sweta Sinha
Biographic Data
| ID | 3725904 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sweta Sinha |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sweta |
| FAMILY NAME | Sinha |
| SIGNATURE | SINHA S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Indian Institute of Technology Patna |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5524-5927 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Polyfunctional heri (হেৰি) in Assamese: A view from Discourse Grammar
Whilst there is a wealth of morphosyntactic studies on Assamese (Indo–Aryan), little attention has been paid to its semantic and pragmatic aspects. In this paper, we describe the polyfunctional item heri in Assamese, drawing on examples from podcasts, supplemented by film and web series scripts. We show that heri functions as a vocative (politely addressing an unknown person), a placeholder (substituting for a target form), an interjective hesita…
As you sow, so shall you reap: Rethinking humanity in the age of artificial intelligence
Linguistic landscape as social identity construction of the public space: An empirical study of the plain region of Darjeeling district
Linguistic landscape as a tool of identity negotiation: The case of the Nepali ethnic communities in West Bengal
Ethnic identity is dynamic and hence mutable concerning time and place. It is a social construction that involves society and its actors. Ethnic identity as a social construction is not free from the negotiation process. Such negotiations occur through various tools, the linguistic landscape being one of them. Despite the plethora of literature on identity negotiation in a multicultural and multilingual context, the linguistic landscape has not b…
English in the mallscape: Exploring linguistic landscape (LL) of quasi-public space in India
India has only recently witnessed LL-based studies, where gaps are still evident. Shopping malls are mushrooming in urban and semi-urban neighborhoods, providing fertile grounds to witness LL-based phenomena from the vantage point of English. An LL-based case study of shopping malls in the city of Siliguri has been attempted with the analysis of 170 photographic data that constitute the “mallscape” of the city. Findings reveal that English domina…
Investigating Gender-Based Stereotypes in Advertisement Landscape: A Multimodal Analysis of an Indian Town
This study examines the prevalence of gender stereotypes in outdoor advertising within an Indian satellite town, focusing on the portrayal of women and men in stereotypical gender roles. Images of outdoor advertisements were collected from the busy streets and subjected to purposive sampling for analysis. The analysis was done with critical discourse analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. The results reveal a clear endorsement of men in powe…
Clamouring Tribalism for Preferential Treatment
Evolving needs of men at the workplace: An Indian perspective
Purpose This paper aims to explore the evolving needs of Indian men and their aspirations regarding work–life balance practices. The ultimate aim is to assess whether the available policies are helpful and to explore the various roadblocks in their implementation. Design/methodology/approach This study takes a qualitative approach and draws on the semi-structured interviews of Indian men ( N = 19). Findings The analysis revealed an asymmetrical a…
Morphophonemic Analysis of Inflectional Morphemes in Indo-Aryan Languages: A Case of Emphatic Constructions in Magahi
Many languages seem to have some kind of emphatic grammatical elements.They are applied to emphasise or to focus on particular elements of the sentence and handle other discourse phenomena such as whether the information is new, or old but related to new, presupposed, and other pragmatic functions.Emphatic discourse markers function to highlight the important utterance by the addresser to catch the attention of the addressee.This study aims to in…
The visibility and salience of languages in an Indian agglomeration: A case study
Linguistic landscaping (LL) is an emerging field of Sociolinguistics exploring the language in its textual form in public sphere. This paper investigates the visibility and prominence of languages in the public space of Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India. A total of 10 city neighborhoods are chosen for the study. The corpus of the study is collected by using diversity sampling method, and the data corpus compiled for the study comprised 700 …
Associations Among Parents’ Eating Behaviors, Feeding Practices, and Children’s Eating Behaviors
Identifying acoustic cues for dialect profiling: Policing in multilingual communities of India
A multilingual country such as India with numerous languages and dialects provides fertile grounds for evasive language crimes. From threat letters to ransom demands, the scope of crime is huge. The cases of illegal immigrants have only added to the fragility of international boundaries especially, during political upheavals. This leads to further vulnerability of society and also creates challenges for the police and law enforcement agencies tow…
A phonological investigation of Sanzari Boro
This study attempts to investigate the phonological structures of Sanzari Boro (SB), a variety of Boro, a Tibeto-Burman language that is mainly spoken in the state of Assam in the North East India. This paper highlights the phonological processes in SB that have emerged due to geographical as well as social factors and language contact. This research is based on the data collected from 10 native speakers. The analysis of data reveals that althoug…
Emission inventory of PM10 in Dhanbad/Jharia coalfield (JCF), India: An intricate coal mining sector
Mother tongue marginalisation: An empirical study on language visibility and vitality in public space of an Indian satellite town
Linguistic landscaping is an emerging field of sociolinguistics exploring language in its textual form in the public sphere. Studies on Linguistic Landscape (LL) can be used as a tool to interpret language vitality in a given territory. The present study investigates visibility and vitality of languages in public space of Bihta, an upcoming satellite town of Patna, the capital city of the Indian state of Bihar. The corpus of the study including b…
Pollution indicators and impact assessment of pollutants discharged into the river Ganga
The water of the river Ganga was monitored for DO, BOD, Eh, rH2 and sulfate‐reducing bacterial population (SRB) in order to test the comparative efficiency of these parameters as pollution indicators, to assess the pollutional states of the river and to evaluate the impact of pollutants on the river water. This study revealed that rH2 was an efficient pollution indicator. The SRB density might also be used as a pollution indicator, provided sulfa…
Mother tongue marginalisation: An empirical study on language visibility and vitality in public space of an Indian satellite town
Linguistic landscaping is an emerging field of sociolinguistics exploring language in its textual form in the public sphere. Studies on Linguistic Landscape (LL) can be used as a tool to interpret language vitality in a given territory. The present study investigates visibility and vitality of languages in public space of Bihta, an upcoming satellite town of Patna, the capital city of the Indian state of Bihar. The corpus of the study including b…
Evolving needs of men at the workplace: An Indian perspective
Purpose This paper aims to explore the evolving needs of Indian men and their aspirations regarding work–life balance practices. The ultimate aim is to assess whether the available policies are helpful and to explore the various roadblocks in their implementation. Design/methodology/approach This study takes a qualitative approach and draws on the semi-structured interviews of Indian men ( N = 19). Findings The analysis revealed an asymmetrical a…
Pollution indicators and impact assessment of pollutants discharged into the river Ganga
The water of the river Ganga was monitored for DO, BOD, Eh, rH2 and sulfate‐reducing bacterial population (SRB) in order to test the comparative efficiency of these parameters as pollution indicators, to assess the pollutional states of the river and to evaluate the impact of pollutants on the river water. This study revealed that rH2 was an efficient pollution indicator. The SRB density might also be used as a pollution indicator, provided sulfa…
Mother tongue marginalisation: An empirical study on language visibility and vitality in public space of an Indian satellite town
Linguistic landscaping is an emerging field of sociolinguistics exploring language in its textual form in the public sphere. Studies on Linguistic Landscape (LL) can be used as a tool to interpret language vitality in a given territory. The present study investigates visibility and vitality of languages in public space of Bihta, an upcoming satellite town of Patna, the capital city of the Indian state of Bihar. The corpus of the study including b…
Emission inventory of PM10 in Dhanbad/Jharia coalfield (JCF), India: An intricate coal mining sector
Identifying acoustic cues for dialect profiling: Policing in multilingual communities of India
A multilingual country such as India with numerous languages and dialects provides fertile grounds for evasive language crimes. From threat letters to ransom demands, the scope of crime is huge. The cases of illegal immigrants have only added to the fragility of international boundaries especially, during political upheavals. This leads to further vulnerability of society and also creates challenges for the police and law enforcement agencies tow…
A phonological investigation of Sanzari Boro
This study attempts to investigate the phonological structures of Sanzari Boro (SB), a variety of Boro, a Tibeto-Burman language that is mainly spoken in the state of Assam in the North East India. This paper highlights the phonological processes in SB that have emerged due to geographical as well as social factors and language contact. This research is based on the data collected from 10 native speakers. The analysis of data reveals that althoug…
Morphophonemic Analysis of Inflectional Morphemes in Indo-Aryan Languages: A Case of Emphatic Constructions in Magahi
Many languages seem to have some kind of emphatic grammatical elements.They are applied to emphasise or to focus on particular elements of the sentence and handle other discourse phenomena such as whether the information is new, or old but related to new, presupposed, and other pragmatic functions.Emphatic discourse markers function to highlight the important utterance by the addresser to catch the attention of the addressee.This study aims to in…
The visibility and salience of languages in an Indian agglomeration: A case study
Linguistic landscaping (LL) is an emerging field of Sociolinguistics exploring the language in its textual form in public sphere. This paper investigates the visibility and prominence of languages in the public space of Patna, the capital city of Bihar, India. A total of 10 city neighborhoods are chosen for the study. The corpus of the study is collected by using diversity sampling method, and the data corpus compiled for the study comprised 700 …
Associations Among Parents’ Eating Behaviors, Feeding Practices, and Children’s Eating Behaviors
English in the mallscape: Exploring linguistic landscape (LL) of quasi-public space in India
India has only recently witnessed LL-based studies, where gaps are still evident. Shopping malls are mushrooming in urban and semi-urban neighborhoods, providing fertile grounds to witness LL-based phenomena from the vantage point of English. An LL-based case study of shopping malls in the city of Siliguri has been attempted with the analysis of 170 photographic data that constitute the “mallscape” of the city. Findings reveal that English domina…
Investigating Gender-Based Stereotypes in Advertisement Landscape: A Multimodal Analysis of an Indian Town
This study examines the prevalence of gender stereotypes in outdoor advertising within an Indian satellite town, focusing on the portrayal of women and men in stereotypical gender roles. Images of outdoor advertisements were collected from the busy streets and subjected to purposive sampling for analysis. The analysis was done with critical discourse analysis and multimodal discourse analysis. The results reveal a clear endorsement of men in powe…
Clamouring Tribalism for Preferential Treatment
Evolving needs of men at the workplace: An Indian perspective
Purpose This paper aims to explore the evolving needs of Indian men and their aspirations regarding work–life balance practices. The ultimate aim is to assess whether the available policies are helpful and to explore the various roadblocks in their implementation. Design/methodology/approach This study takes a qualitative approach and draws on the semi-structured interviews of Indian men ( N = 19). Findings The analysis revealed an asymmetrical a…
Polyfunctional heri (হেৰি) in Assamese: A view from Discourse Grammar
Whilst there is a wealth of morphosyntactic studies on Assamese (Indo–Aryan), little attention has been paid to its semantic and pragmatic aspects. In this paper, we describe the polyfunctional item heri in Assamese, drawing on examples from podcasts, supplemented by film and web series scripts. We show that heri functions as a vocative (politely addressing an unknown person), a placeholder (substituting for a target form), an interjective hesita…
As you sow, so shall you reap: Rethinking humanity in the age of artificial intelligence
Linguistic landscape as social identity construction of the public space: An empirical study of the plain region of Darjeeling district
Linguistic landscape as a tool of identity negotiation: The case of the Nepali ethnic communities in West Bengal
Ethnic identity is dynamic and hence mutable concerning time and place. It is a social construction that involves society and its actors. Ethnic identity as a social construction is not free from the negotiation process. Such negotiations occur through various tools, the linguistic landscape being one of them. Despite the plethora of literature on identity negotiation in a multicultural and multilingual context, the linguistic landscape has not b…
Linguistics (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Geography (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works)