
Dr. Anik Nandi
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Dr. Anik Nandi earned his PhD in 2017 as a prestigious James Watt Fellow from the Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, United Kingdom. Dr. Nandi is currently working as an Associate Professor of Multicultural Communication in the School of Business at Woxsen University, Telangana, India. He is also the Founding Director of the Centre for Languages and Multicultural Communication, the Founding Director of the first ever Galician Studies Centre in Asia (funded by the Govt. of Galicia, Spain) and Chair for Language Policy Studies in his current institution. Prior to this, Anik worked as a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of the Basque Country, Spain where he conducted research on the intergenerational transmission of Basque and Galician (in Spain) languages. The aforementioned project secured an individual funding of 97,800 Euros for 3 years from the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation and the European Union’s Covid Recovery Fund. Anik is also a Senior Research Associate (Hon.) at the Sociolinguistic Seminar of the Royal Galician Language Academy (Spain), a Visiting Researcher at the Leiden Centre for Linguistics (The Netherlands), and a Collaborator at the research centre attached to the UNESCO Chair on World Language Heritage in the University of the Basque Country (Spain). Dr. Nandi specialises in language policy and literacy practices in multilingual settings and his research papers appeared in many prestigious international journals linked to Cultural Studies and Applied Linguistics. Between 2021-24, he worked as the Book Reviews Editor of the Sociolinguistic Studies journal (ISSN: 1750-8649; Scopus and Q2), Equinox Publishing, United Kingdom.
Key publications:
Nandi, A. & Zabrodskaja, A. Eds. (2024) Journal Special Issue: Family as a language policy regime: Agency, negotiation and local practices, Sociolinguistic Studies, 18 (1– 2).
https://journal.equinoxpub.com/SS/issue/view/2446
Nandi, A. (2024). Family dynamics towards heritage language maintenance: The case of Indian transnationals in Northern Ireland, Sociolinguistic Studies, 18 (1–2), 199- 221. https://doi.org/10.1558/sols.26005
Nandi, A. et al. (2023). Countering government’s low-intensity language policies on the ground: Family language policies in Castilian-Spanish dominated Galicia and Navarre, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies, 1-
25. https://doi.org/10.1080/15427587.2023.2247510
Nandi, A. et al. (2023). Reclaiming voice through bottom-up family language policies: Sociolinguistic citizenship in Castilian-dominated multilingual urban settings. In C. Korb et. al (Eds.) The Power of Voice in Transforming Multilingual Societies. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters, pp. 101- 120. DOI: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800412026
Nandi, A. (2023). Micropolíticas lingüísticas familiares de resistencia. Estrategias parentales para la transmisión intergeneracional del gallego, Revista Española de Lingüística Aplicada/Spanish Journal of Applied Linguistics, 36(1), 154- 177. https://doi.org/10.1075/resla.20046.nan
Carruthers, J. & Nandi, A. (2021). Supporting Speakers of Community Languages. A Case Study of Policy and Practice in Primary Schools, Current Issues in Language Planning, 22(3), 269-289. https://doi.org/10.1080/14664208.2020.1838748 Nandi, A. (2018). Parents as stakeholders: Language management in urban Galician homes, Multilingua, 37(2), 201-223. https://doi.org/10.1515/multi-2017-0020