Sreedevi Polpakkara
Assistant Professor
Dr. Sreedevi Polpakkara is an Assistant Professor of Linguistics at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, École Centrale School of Engineering, Mahindra University. She holds a Ph.D. in Applied Linguistics from the University of Hyderabad.
Dr. Sreedevi’s interests include cognitive linguistics, cultural linguistics, Metaphors and conceptualizations, Syntax-semantics interface, Functional categories
2019
Ph.D. Applied Linguistics – University of Hyderabad, India
2006
B.A. Communicative English – M.G. University, India
2008
M.A. Linguistics – University of Hyderabad, India
2010
M.phil Linguistics – University of Hyderabad, India
2021- 2024
Language Data analyst| krita.ai
2019- 2021
Guest Faculty | University of Hyderabad
2015- 2019
Freelance soft-skill trainer| Verizon Data Services via C-School consultancy
2017-2018
Language facilitator | Ananya learning center for autism and learning disabilities
2009
Program co-ordinator| Lohit Youth Library Movement, Arunachal Pradesh
2015
- “Motion Event Typology” in mRNA. Volume 4, Issue 6&7, September-October 2015, pp. 36-41.ISSN 2319-2747
2017
- “The Structure of Spatial Relators in Malayalam” in Language in India. Volume 17:4 April 2017. pp. 216-232. ISSN 1930-2940
Areas of interest:
- Conceptual Metaphors in grammaticalizations
- Cognitive semantics
- Spatial and temporal categorization in languages
- Cultural linguistics
- Sociolinguistics
- Semantics
