Abhimanyu K. Sharma

ORCID-ID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7931-224X

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Hi! Abhimanyu Sharma (Abhi) here! I created this website when I was a PhD student and had no institutional affiliation, so I had to put myself out there somehow. Now I do have an institutional affiliation (or two), but I have decided not to delete this website because it's an online souvenir from my PhD days, and I can post silly pictures as you see in the background (designed by my friend OFM, quote by Amal Madibbo).

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My research focuses on language policy; I'm trying to be an expert on power in language policy. Let's see if that works out.

 

My first book called Reconceptualising Power in Language Policy was published in August 2022. Based on an analysis of LP legislation in six case studies (Wales, Luxembourg, the EU, India, Manipur and Tamil Nadu), it challenges the dominant notion of macro-level power in LP research. You can read a review here

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​My research can be accessed through my academia page:

http://cambridge.academia.edu/AbhimanyuSharma

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At Cambridge, I established a group named Cambridge Sociolinguistics Circle to promote sociolinguistics here. I am also the Communications Secretary of BAAL Language Policy SIG. For details of its activities and events, click here:

https://sites.google.com/view/langpol/home

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In 2019, I established a minor award in the memory of my mother. The purpose is to cover printing costs of PhD students, as the final year of PhD is largely unfunded. Please get in touch if you want to make donations for Malati Sharma Memorial Award.

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Postal address:

Dr Abhimanyu Sharma

Faculty of MMLL, Sidgwick Avenue

University of Cambridge

Cambridge CB3 9DA

United Kingdom

E-Mail: aks71@cam DOT ac DOT uk