In this study, diglossia in Bengali has been explored. Charles Ferguson (1959), in the article “Diglossia,” brought into focus a phenomenon that was revolutionary in the field of sociolinguistics. Diglossia is the functional coexistence of two linguistic varieties, each with its…
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My dissertation, "History, Trauma and Remembering: The Construction of a Postcolonial Bengali Cultural Identity in Ritwik Ghatak's Films," examines the work of Bengali filmmaker, Ritwik Ghatak (1925-1976), who acted in, wrote, produced and directed plays, feature films and docum…
The dissertation explores comparatively the experimental Sanskrit poetry of the literary salon of Laks[dotbelow]man[dotbelow]sena of Bengal, on the eve of the Turkish conquest (1205 A.D.); concluding with a look at how this period was formative for the comparable inventions of t…
This thesis addresses two fundamental tasks in natural language processing, namely morphological segmentation and part-of-speech induction. In contrast to existing algorithms developed for these problems, we have proposed a learning system where a morphological analyzer and a pa…
This project will use the event history analysis like new nationalist movement, student and political movements in late nineteen sixties to investigate the Bengali nationalism and the decomposition of Pakistan in 1971. Nationalism and nationhood are not the outcomes of a static …
Acculturation is the process by which an individual’s cultural patterns, such as practices, values and identities, change as a result of long term contact with another culture (Ward & Geeraert, 2016). Subjective well-being refers to contentment with one’s life. (Diener, 2006…
This sociolinguistic ethnography examines how speakers in an urban Bangladeshi market use participant-indexical pronouns, kinterms, and metapragmatic discourse to locate one another in variously defined sectors of social space, including micro-interactional stances, local stereo…
A major contribution to the development of modern Bengali literature in the nineteenth century is works of the Islamic sciences. My study concentrates on the role of these works in the formation of Bengali-Muslim identity, focusing specifically on the Islamic science of interpre…
This research project explores Biblical, Qur'anic, Hindu, and historical perspectives of the Christian Churches including the Bengali Christians on the assurance of salvation in order to equip the Bengali Christians with the assurance of salvation for evangelism by the Bengali C…
This thesis explores the various discourses on the formation of Bengali Muslim identity in colonial Bengal until 1920s before it becomes hardened and used in various politically mobilizable forms. For the purpose of this thesis, I engage multiple articulations of the Bengali Mus…
My dissertation asks if and in what capacities everyday South Asian transnational Muslim women are engaged in feminist interpretations or exegesis of the Qur'an. Furthermore, if everyday women are actively conducting interpretation, my research seeks to formulate and clarify the…