Interests

• Cognitive Linguistics, Pragmatics, Historical Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Indic Linguistics, Bangla Linguistics
• Socio-pragmatics, Language and Academic Argumentation

Publication
       Books

• Generative Lexicon Account of Bangla Complex Predicates. Partridge. 2015.
• Syntax-Pragmatics Interface. Partridge, 2015.

Book Chapters

• Satsangi Abhijeet and Sanjukta Ghosh. A Comparative Study of Hedges and Boosters in Indian English. (2024). In Select Papers from NCLL 2023. (ed.) Gautam k. Borah. Pp. 77-91. Publisher: Tezpur University. ISBN: 978-81-968280-5-9.
• Chauhan Siddharth and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2024). Distribution of Prepositions of Place and Time in NCERT Class I Textbook.  In Select Papers from NCLL 2023. (ed.) Gautam k. Borah. Pp. 77-91. Publisher: Tezpur University. ISBN: 978-81-968280-5-9.

• Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Locative and Spatial Constructions of Bangla. (2021). In Ghanashyam Sharma and John Lowe (eds.) Trends in South Asian Linguistics. Mouton de Gruyter. Berlin. DOI: 10.1515/9783110753066-013
• Cartography of temporal adverbial clauses (with Anil Thakur, Shubhra Apurve, Neha Maurya). In Singh, S. et al. Fabrics of Linguistics. 2017.
• Conceptual Combination: A Psycho-Cognitive Account of Neology. Bharthiar University. 2010
• Two Competing Properties of a Classifier: Quantification and Individuation. Rainbow of Linguistics. 2007

Journal and Proceedings

• Paul Namrata, Abhijeet Satsangi and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2024). Cognitive Semantic Analysis of Fear Expressions in Bangla and Hindi. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. Vol. 21 No.1. Pp 95-122. ISSN 1336-782X.  (indexed in Scopus)
• Dwivedi, S., Ghosh, S. & Dwivedi, S. (2024). Navigating Linguistic Diversity: In-Context Learning and Prompt Engineering for Subjectivity Analysis in Low-Resource Languages. SN COMPUT. SCI. 5, 418 https://doi.org/10.1007/s42979-024-02770-z. (indexed in Scopus, IF 4.3)
• Satsangi Abhijeet and Sanjukta Ghosh (2024). Cross-Cultural Conceptualizations of Love: Cognitive Linguistic Analysis of Metaphors in Poems of Kabir and Rumi. International Journal of Religion. Volume 5, No. 1. Pp. 732-742. DOI: https://doi.org/10.61707/wzzjvr70. (indexed in Scopus, IF 0.18)
• Mahant Pratik K and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2024). Beyond the Classroom: A Comprehensive Study on Online Drama in Education for Second Language Pedagogy. International Journal of Education. 44(1-3): 1-14. DOI: 10.31901/24566322.2024/44.1-3.1317. (indexed in ESCI)
• Dwivedi Vandana and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2024). Knowledge Representation in Generative Lexicon: Exploiting Qualia Structure for Compound Noun Interpretation.  International Journal of Knowledge and Learning. Vol. 17, No. 4. Pp. 341-342. Inderscience Publications. DOI: 10.1504/IJKL.2023.10053232. (Indexed in Scopus, IF 0.9)
• Dwivedi, Satyam, Sanjukta Ghosh, Shivam Dwivedi. (2023). Breaking the Bias: Gender Fairness in LLMs Using Prompt Engineering and In- Context Learning. Rupkatha Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies in Humanities 15:4. https://doi.org/10.21659/rupkatha.v15n4.10 (indexed in ESCI, IF 0.2)
• Dwivedi Shivam, Sanjukta Ghosh and Satyam Dwivedi. (2023).Binary classifier for identification of stammering instances in Hindi speech data. International Journal of Speech Technology. 26:3. 765-774. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10772-023-10046-9. (indexed in Scopus, IF 4.2)
• Mahant Pratik K, Sohaib Alam, Sanjukta Ghosh and Ismat Jabin. (2023). Shifting Learning Atmosphere through Process Drama: Teaching English Parts-of-Speech (PoS) in Indian Classroom. World Journal of English Languages. Vol. 13(8) DOI: 10.5430/wje.v13n8p288. (indexed in Scopus, IF 0.3)
• Chauhan Siddharth, Abhijeet Satsangi, Pursotam Kumar and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2023). Evaluation of Cognitive and Argumentation Skills in Secondary English Textbooks. International Journal of Educational Sciences. Vol.42 (1-3). (2023) DOI: 10.31901/24566322.2023/42.1-3.1297. (indexed in ESCI)
• Dwivedi Vandana and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2023). Semantic relations classification in Hindi compound nouns using embeddings International Journal of Information Technology (Singapore) https://doi.org/10.1007/s41870-023-01374-9. Springer. published online 25th July. (indexed in Scopus, IF 3.6)
• Satsangi Abhijeet and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2023). Hedging in Hindi academic Writing. 2023. Aligarh Journal of Linguistics. Volume No. 12, 2023-2024.Pp.49-64. (indexed in UGC-Care)
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2022). Cognitive Linguistic Support for Historical Linguistic Facts: A comparative semantic study of Hindi-Bangla-Maithili ‘come’. Journal of Asiatic Society. LXIV, Vol. II. The Asiatic Society, Kolkata. (Indexed in Zoological records, Clarivate Analytics)
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2022). Classification and Rule-based Interpretation of Genitive Inflected Bangla Compound Nouns. International Journal of Dravidian Linguistics. Volume LI No. 1. Pp. 110-127. Dravidian Linguistics Association.
•  Dwivedi Vandana and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2021). Classification of Hindi Compound Nouns using Machine Learning. SN Computer Science. Springer Nature.  DOI: 10.1007/s42979-021-00895-z. (indexed in Scopus, IF 4.3)
• Dwivedi Satyam and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2021). Subjectivity Identification through lexical rules. SN Computer Science. Vol. 3 (32). Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/s42979-021-00892-2 (indexed in Scopus, IF 4.3)
• Dwivedi Shivam, Sanjukta Ghosh and Shivam Dwivedi. (2021). Developing Hindi Stammering Corpus: Framework and Insights. SN Computer Science. Vol. 3 (29). Springer Nature. DOI: 10.1007/s42979-021-00891-3 (indexed in Scopus, IF 4.3)
• Ghosh, Sanjukta. (2018).‘Grammaticalization: A study of Selected Bangla Postpositions.’ . Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies (JALS). Bahri Pubications. Vol.7 No.1-2. Pp 223-232.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2018).‘(Im)politeness in Indian TV Advertisements’. In the Proceedings of 7^th International Conference on Language, Linguistics and Literature, Singapore. Organized by Global Science Technology Forum. pp.337-340.
• Ghosh Sanjukta (2023). Pragmatics of Translating Tourism Texts: A Case of Spiritual Tourism in India. In the Proceedings of GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022 (Virtual). SOAS University of London, UK. Michael Hadzantonis and Asmah Haji Omar. (eds.) The Global Council of Anthropological Linguistics GLOCAL e-ISSN 2707 8647. (indexed in Scopus)
• Kumar Pursotam and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2023). Symbols of Spatial Representation Across Languages: From English Phrasal Verbs to Hindi Complex Predicates. In the Proceedings of GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022 (Virtual). SOAS University of London, UK. Michael Hadzantonis and Asmah Haji Omar. (eds.) The Global Council of Anthropological Linguistics GLOCAL e-ISSN 2707 8647. (indexed in Scopus)
• Kumari Jyoti and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2023). Use of Impersonal Emotions in Food and Beverage Advertisements in India. In the Proceedings of GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2022 (Virtual). SOAS University of London, UK. Michael Hadzantonis and Asmah Haji Omar. (eds.) The Global Council of Anthropological Linguistics GLOCAL e-ISSN 2707 8647. (indexed in Scopus)
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2016). bhojpurir itihaas: kayekti prashna (in Bengali). In ebam mushaera. Pp. 129-135.  
• Ghosh Sanjukta and Ruchi Singh. (2016). Language and Gender in the discourse of Indian TV Advertisements. IJDL/DLA, Pp. 155-166.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2014). Changing face of Indian television commercials: Sociopragmatics of socially responsible open slogans. Language Forum.  Pp 45-57, 2014.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2014). Noun Classification from the Verb Frames of Conjunct Verbs. Journal of Advanced Linguistic Studies. Bahri publication. Pp 149-162.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2013). Review: Impoliteness: Using language to cause offense by Jonathan Culpeper. Indian Linguistics/89-92.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2013). Linguistic Relativity revisited: a cognitive linguistic approach to Translation Studies. International Journal of Translation Studies. Bahri Publications. Pp 67-82.
• Singh Shashibala and Ghosh Sanjukta. (2013). Bhojpuri aspect system (with Shashibala Singh). Indian Linguistics. Pp. 27-39.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2013). na: beyond negation (with Anil Thakur). Proceedings of ICON-2013. Pp 113-117.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2009). Typology of Copular Clauses in Eastern Indic Languages. Indian Linguistics. Pp 123-133.  
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2008). A generative lexicon account of A-V complex predicates of Bangla. in Proceedings of ICON- 2008, MacMillan Publishers. Pp 134-144.
• Thakur Anil and Ghosh Sanjukta. (2008). Handling Polysemous Particles in Multilingual Environment. Vishwabharat. MICT, Govt of India. Pp 109-112.
• Ghosh Sanjukta and Anil Thakur. Causative Compound Verb Constructions: A Generative Lexicon Account. Vishwabharat. MCIT, Govt of India. Pp 105-108, 2008.
• Dasgupta Probal and Sanjukta Ghosh. (2006).The Positive Polarity Copula in Bangla: An Item of Unexplored Origin. Indian Linguistic/61-64.
• Ghosh Sanjukta and Siddharth Chakraborty. (2006). Identification and Characterization of NV Complex Predicates. Proceedings of MSPIL, IIT Bombay. Pp 150-159.
• Thakur Anil, Sanjukta Ghosh and B.N. Patnaik. (2006). Processing of some particles in selected Indian languages. Proceedings of National Seminar on Perspectives in Linguistics/35- 46.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2005). Syntax and Pragmatics of Bangla Imperfective Participle. Language Forum. Pp 1-19, 2005.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2006). Honorificity marking words of Bangla and Hindi: Classifiers or not?. In Bhashacintan, Journal of Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2004). Referential Feature Hierarchy and Individuation: A study of Bangla DP Structure. In Indian Journal of Linguistics. Pp 34-46.
• Ghosh Sanjukta. (2002). Tuku: An Exceptional Classifier. Indian Journal of Linguistics. Pp 57-66.

Presentation (Recent)

• Conjunctive Participles to Compound Verbs to Postpositions: Can we trace a path? in SALA 37, Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy. October 4-7, 2023.
• Cognitive semantic analysis of fear expressions in Hindi and Bangla. in SALA 37, Ca Foscari University, Venice, Italy. October 4-7, 2023.
• Hedging in Hindi Newspaper Editorials. ICOLSI-42, GLA University, Mathura, 10-12 December 2020.
• Semantics of Spatial and Locative Postpositions of Bangla. Presented at 35th South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA-35), INALCO, Paris, 29-31 October 2019.
• Semantic Interpretation of Domain-specific Hindi Compound Nouns. Presented at 35th South Asian Language Analysis Roundtable (SALA-35), INALCO, Paris, 29-31 October 2019.
• Representation of Voices across Disciplines: A Study of Choice of Verbs (with co-authors). Sharing Teaching-learning Experience Conference (STEC2019), TLC, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, March 8-9, 2019.
• Some Observations and Evaluation of the Faculty Feedback From a FDP in IIT (BHU) (with co-authors). Sharing Teaching-learning Experience Conference (STEC2019), TLC, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, March 8-9, 2019.
• Generative lexicon analysis of Bangla Inflected compound words. ​46th All India Conference of Dravidian Linguists & International Symposium on Linguistic Ecology and Language Technology. Jadavpur University, Kolkata. June 21-23, 2018. 

Invited talks/Workshops etc (Recent)

• Review of Literature in Research, IIT Patna, November 3, 2023
• Cross-Cultural study of Visual and Verbal Metaphors in Advertisements, University of Philippines, Diliman. November 2022.
• Where is the meaning?: Amity University, Patna, 17 September 2021.
• What do we know when we know a language?: Amity University, Patna, 20 August 2021.
• Generative Lexicon: Where Lexicon meets Syntax and Semantics, CALTS, University of Hyderabad, 5 August 2020.
• Cognitive Linguistics and its Applications. Academic Staff College, Ranchi University, 27 July 2019.
• Topics in Academic Argumentation. Academic Staff College, Ranchi University, 27 July 2019.​
• Writing a Research Proposal. Faculty Development Program. TLC, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. March 2019.
• Academic Argumentation across Disciplines. TLC, IIT (BHU) Varanasi, March 2019.
• Language and the Development of the Self. LESS-2019, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. February 2019.
• Fundamentals of Linguistics. VCW, Rajghat, Varanasi. February 2019.
• Workshop on Parsing Guidelines and Techniques. SCONLI-2019. Department of HSS, IIT (ISM) Dhanbad. January 2019.
• Workshop on Basic Computational Linguistics. Department of Linguistics, Mumbai University. December 2018.

       PhD Guidance (Ongoing)

• Sentiment Analysis in the tourism domain : Sunanda Pandey (2023) Co-supervisor: Dr. Sukomal Pal, CSE
• Love metaphors in Hindi Movie Songs: A Diachronic Study: Shrija Tiwary (2023)
• Understanding the mind of the serial killers by their language: Arpita Anjum (2023)
• A Cognitive semantic Study of Emotion metaphors of Bangla: Namrata Paul (2022) (Co-supervisor with Dr. Anil Thakur as a supervisor) 
• Cross-cultural Study of Visual and Verbal Metaphors in Advertisements: Jyoti Kumari (2021) (Co-supervisor with Dr. Anil Thakur as a supervisor)
• Hedging in Newspaper Editorials: Abhijeet Satsangi (2020)
• Evaluation of NCERT English language textbooks of primary classes: Siddharth Chouhan (2020)

              PhD thesis awarded from IIT (BHU) Varanasi

• Hindi Compound Noun Semantics using Generative Lexicon and Machine Learning: (2022) Vandana Dwivedi 
• A Computational Linguistic Study of Stammering in Hindi Speakers (2023) Shivam Dwivedi
• Integrating Drama in Education in Second Language Teaching (2024) Pratik Kumar Mahant

• ​Awarded from BHU

• Tense and Aspect System of Bhojpuri (Shashibala Singh)

• Syntax and Semantics of Adverbials of Bhojpuri (Neha Maurya)
• Understanding Polysemy: Mapping Word Senses onto Cognitive Schemas (Madhavi)
• Language of Indian TV Advertisements (Ruchi Singh)
• Comparative Syntactic Study of Arabic, English and French (Abdallah Hammad Jaber Alzeedyein)
• Semantics of English Discourse Markers (Saurabh Srivastava)

Awards/Fellowships/Grants

• Ishan Scholar for standing first at BA (H) in University of Calcutta
• University Gold Medal for MA in Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad
• Merit Scholarship for MA, Applied Linguistics, University of Hyderabad 
• Major Research Project of University Grants Commission of India

• Member: Department R&D Committee, 2022-23
• Convener: Department Time Table committee, 2022-23
• Chairperson: PG Admission Committee, 2020-2021
• Associate Professor: Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. (Feb 2018 - present)
• Member: DPGC, Department of Humanistic Studies, IIT (BHU) Varanasi. 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2022-23
• Associate Professor: Deccan College Post Graduate and Research Institute Pune (Feb 2013 - June 2013)
• Assistant Professor: Department of Linguistics, Banaras Hindu University (Nov 2005 - Jan 2018)
• Research Scientist: LTRC, IIIT, Hyderabad (Dec 2004 - Nov 2005)
• Guest Lecturer: CALTS, University of Hyderabad (July 2002 - Nov 2004)
• Member: Board of Studies, DRC, TC, PPC, PG Admission Committee in Linguistics, BHU, during 2005-2017.
• Member: Sexual Harassment & Grievances Committee, Faculty of Arts, BHU, 2015-17
• Member: Governing Body, KV BHU Campus. 2016-18