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Janashruti Chandra

Janashruti Chandra
Janashruti Chandra
Associate Professor
Centre/School/Special Centre
Centre for Japanese Studies,
School of Language Literature and Culture Studies
Room No
109, SLL&CS-II
Off. Phone
011-26704251
Residence
09818572628
Email
jchandra@mail.jnu.ac.in, janashruti.chandra@gmail.com
Personal Webpage
https://jnu.ac.in
Qualifications

Ph.D                 
Thesis title: Ambiguous Expressions of Politeness- A case study of compliment responses in Japanese and Indian contexts

Areas of Interest/Specialization

Japanese Language and Teaching Methodology
Japanese Sociolinguistics
Culture and Society of Japan
Literary translation

Experience

2002- Present, Assistant Professor, CJS

Awards & Honours
  • Selected for Short term Teachers Training Program, Japan Foundation, Urawa, Japan, January 31-March 27, 2007
  • Recipient of The Japan Foundation Japanese Studies Fellowship as Visiting fellow to Osaka University, 2008-2009
  • Recipient of The Japan Foundation Advanced Training Program for Foreign Teachers of Japanese, Urawa, Japan, October 21-Dec 18 ,2014
  • Study Tour award to attend AAS (Association of Asian Studies) Conference 2017 at Toronto, Canada. 16-19 March, 2017
International Collaboration/Consultancy

NA

Best Peer Reviewed Publications
  • UME (Co-authored)- Textbook and Workbook for Class 6th.In collaboration with Textbook preparation team, Japan Foundation, CBSE; Goyal Publishers, New Delhi, 2006
  • MOMO (Co-authored)- Textbook and Workbook for Class 7th. In collaboration with Textbook preparation team, Japan Foundation, CBSE; Goyal Publishers, New Delhi ,2008
  • SAKURA (Co-authored)-Textbook and Workbook for Class 8th. In collaboration with Textbook preparation team, Japan Foundation, CBSE, Goyal Publishers, 2009
  • Interlinking Linguistics and Literature- To Read Japanese Literary Texts (Edited volume), Northern Book Centre, 2018, ISBN: 81-7211-386-2, 2018
  • Uttarakhand Open University, Unit writer (Authored Course 3, Block 2, Units 1,2,3,4 of Textbook and Exercise book) for teaching resource material- Book I (Textbook), and Book II (Exercise book) for Certificate course, Haldwani, 2018

 

Recent Peer Reviewed Journals/Books
  • “Cross Cultural Study of Speech Acts Realization Project II in South Asian Countries vis-à-vis Japanese Language”, P.A George (Ed.) Japanese Studies in South Asia: New Horizons, Northern Book Centre, 2021, ISBN:81-7211-396-X
  • “The Scary old women- Comparing Russia’s Baba Yaga and Japan’s Yamauba folklore” in CRITIC, A Journal of the Centre of Russian Studies, Issue no. 21, 2023, ISSN: 2229-7146
  • “Japan’s “Soft” Push- Shaping Foreign Policy in Southeast Asia and India”.  In Srabani Roy Choudhury (Ed.) “Japan and Its Partners in the Indo- Pacific: Engagements and Alignment”, Routledge Publication, 2023, ISBN 9780367641580