Introductory Pages - An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri
Introductory Pages - An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri
Introductory Pages - An Introduction to Spoken Kashmiri
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR<br />
<strong>An</strong> <strong>Introduction</strong> <strong>to</strong> <strong>Spoken</strong> <strong>Kashmiri</strong><br />
by Braj B. Kachru<br />
Homepage: Kachru.com<br />
Professor Braj B. Kachru is the Direc<strong>to</strong>r of the Centre for Advanced Study at the University of<br />
Illinois, Champaign, USA. He is the world's leading scholar inthe field of world Englishes; he<br />
has pioneered, shaped, and defined the linguistic, socio-cultural and pedagogical dimensions of<br />
cross-cultural diffusion of English.<br />
Professor Kachru is author or edi<strong>to</strong>r of 20 books, including the prize-winning The Alchemy of<br />
English: The Spread, Functions and Models of Non-Native Englishes, associate edi<strong>to</strong>r of the<br />
acclaimed The Oxford Companion <strong>to</strong> the English Language and Contribu<strong>to</strong>r <strong>to</strong> the Cambridge<br />
His<strong>to</strong>ry of the English Language. In addition, he has written over 100 research papers, review<br />
articles and reviews on <strong>Kashmiri</strong> and Hindi languages and literatures, and theoretical and applied<br />
aspects of language in society. Kachru sits on the edi<strong>to</strong>rial boards of eight scholarly journals, and<br />
is founder and co-edi<strong>to</strong>r of the journal World Englishes. He has chaired many national and<br />
international committees and led several organisations, including the American Association for<br />
Applied Linguistics. Among his many awards is the Duke of Edinburgh Award (1987).<br />
Professor Kachru holds appointments in linguistics, education, comparative literature and<br />
English as an international language. He is a Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences and<br />
was head of the Department of Linguistics for 11 years, direc<strong>to</strong>r of English as an International<br />
Language for six years, and direc<strong>to</strong>r of the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of<br />
America (1978). He has had fellowships from the British Council, the East-West Centre and the<br />
American Institute of Indian Studies. He has held visiting professorships in Canada, Singapore<br />
and India.<br />
Text reproduced from:<br />
Naad, All India <strong>Kashmiri</strong> Samaj (AIKS)<br />
Vol. 5, No. 10-11, Oc<strong>to</strong>ber-November, 1996<br />
© 2006 Braj B. Kachru (http://kachru.com) v<br />
http://koshur.org/<strong>Spoken</strong><strong>Kashmiri</strong>