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Borrowings from Sanskrit and from Urdu in contemporary Hindi: tracing language stereotypes through distributional semantics methods

2021/43/O/HS2/02392

Keywords:

distributional semantics word embeddings word2vec linguistic worldview connotative meaning cultural stereotypes Hindi Sanskrit Urdu

Descriptors:

  • HS2_005:

Panel:

HS2 - Culture and cultural production: literary theory and comparative literature, history of literature, linguistics, library science, cultural studies, arts, architecture

Host institution :

Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

dr hab. Maciej Jakub Eder 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 2

Call: PRELUDIUM BIS 3 - announced on 2021-09-15

Amount awarded: 366 000 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2022-10-01

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-09-30

Project duration:: 48 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (3)
  • Book publications / chapters in book publications (1)
  1. On the authenticity of prose writings attributed to Śaṅkara
    Authors:
    Ivan Andrijanić & Jacek Bąkowski
    Academic press:
    Acta Asiatica Varsoviensia (rok: 2023, tom: 36, strony: 14001), Wydawca: IKSiO PAN
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.60018/AcAsVa.npqm2712 - link to the publication
  2. Gagan Gill - Bezsenność w Delhi
    Authors:
    Jacek Bąkowski
    Academic press:
    Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture (rok: 2022, tom: 16, strony: 151-168), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4467/24506249PJ.22.014.16837 - link to the publication
  3. Saadat Hasan Manto, Toba Tek Singh (tłumaczenie z języka urdu)
    Authors:
    Jacek Bąkowski
    Academic press:
    Polish Journal of the Arts and Culture (rok: 2024, tom: 19, strony: 119-138), Wydawca: Uniwersytet Jagielloński
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.4467/24506249PJ.24.008.20483 - link to the publication
  1. Ḵẖūn for rakt and duniyā for saṃsār. A cognitive approach based on word embeddings to Sanskrit and Perso-Arabic loanwords in Hindi
    Authors:
    Jacek Bąkowski
    Book:
    Between Language and Literature: Hindi in Classroom and Beyond (rok: 2024, tom: 1, strony: 127-141), Wydawca: University of Zagreb
    Status:
    Published