Dr. Maya Khemlani David

Adjunct Faculty - Jaipuria Lucknow
Ph.D (University Of Malaya), MPA

Contact

Email: mayadavid@yahoo.com
Location: Jaipuria Lucknow

Research Areas

• Cross-Cultural Communication 
• Discourse Analysis
• English for Specific Purposes 
• Language Maintenance and Language Shift 
• Language of the Elderly 
• Language and Human Rights

Teaching Areas

Languages & Linguistics

Biography

Professor Dr. Maya Khemlani David (Faculty of Languages and Lingusitics, University of Malaya) is an Honorary Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Linguists, United Kingdom. As a sociolinguist, Dr. David has a special interest in discourse analysis, languages in Malaysian minority communities, and the role of language in establishing and maintaining national unity. 

Dr. David is a Member of the Managing Board of The Social Capital Foundation and a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Communication Practices.

Dr. David is associated with Jaipuria as Adjunct Faculty.

Research

2013
• Representation of Elderly in a Malaysian English Daily

2012
• Reading: Broadening Cultural Competence
• Language-in-education and Human Rights: The Case Oc Second-tier Non-elite English-Medium Schools in Pakistan

2011
• The Relationship Between Language Proficiency and Inter-ethnic Relationships
• Do Exogamous Marriages Result in Language Shift?: Focus on the Sindhis of Kuching, Malaysia
• Ethnic Identity in the Tamil Community of Kuching
• Women, Language and Peace
• Cooperative Learning in the Pre-employment Programme, University Malaya