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I feel extraordinarily lucky in living as a life-long student. I am not referring to the degrees that I have acquired and the excellent educational institutions where I have been privileged to acquire formal education, but to be blessed with love of reading and research. A part of my continuing education has been to write on subjects requiring more careful reading on some subjects. Among my essays in English that have been published in newspapers and journals that are not easily accessible there are some that deserved to be put together in a book form. I decided to select some on Bengali language and culture that comprise this book. These writings are part of my studies and research in Literature, Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics and Anthropological linguistics at the University of Michigan, Indiana University, and Stanford University as well as my teaching career in the field at the University of Missouri, Stanford University, San Diego State University and United States International University at San Diego. Since my retirement in 2003 I am serving the non-profit Intercultural Research Forum at San Diego, Islamabad and Dhaka. Some of these papers have been presented at conferences in different countries except the in-progress chapter entitled "Some Contributions to Bengali Linguistics in Bangladesh".

Title	Bengali Language and Culture
Author	Afia Dil
Publisher	Adorn Publication
ISBN	9789842003745
Edition	1st Edition, 2014
Number of Pages	320
Country	Bangladesh
Language	English

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AFIA DIL Born in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and educated at Eden Girls High School and Eden Girls College at Dhaka, she earned her B.A. Honors and Master's degrees in English Literature from the University of Dhaka, Post-graduate diploma in education from the University of New Zealand, Master's degree in English and Applied Linguistics from the University of Michigan, and Ph.D. in Linguistics from Stanford University. Since 1975 she has taught graduate courses in Linguistics, Women Studies and Leadership Studies at United States International University, California. At present she is a Professor Emeritus at the Alliant (former U.S.) International University. Her publications in Bengali include, among others: New Zealander Patra (Letters from New Zealand); Bengali version of Caroline Pratt's I Learn from Children (1955); Je desh mone pare (1957) - her travelogue of the United States of America; and her Bengali translation of Helen Keller's My Teacher. The most notable among her translations from Bengali into English is Syed Waliullah's Taranga Bhanga, a play, published by the Bengali Academy under the title of The Breakers (1985). Among her linguistic publications in English, mention may be made of English Loanwords in Bengali" (1966); “Bengali Baby Talk" (1975); (with Charles A. Ferguson) “The Sociolinguistic Variable(s) in Bengali: A Sound Change in Progress?" (1978); "Diglossia in Bangla: A Study of Shifts in the Verbal Repertoire of the Educated Classes in Dhaka, Bangladesh" (1986): (with Anwar Dil) "Muhammad Shahidullah's Approach to Indo-Aryan Parent Speech and the Common Bases of Urdu-Hindi and Bengali" (1989). Her monograph Two Traditions of the Bengali Language (Cambridge, 1991; Islamabad, 1993) on the sociolinguistic study of the Hindu and Muslim dialects of Bengali has been hailed as "a valuable contribution to sociolinguistic research in a neglected field”. She is co-author (with Anwar Dil) of a 744-page book, Bengali Language Movement to Bangladesh (San Diego: Intercultural Forum, 2000), hailed as the most judicious research work on the creation of Bangladesh as a nation-state.