Dr. Mashrur Imtiaz
Biography
| Degree Name | Group/Major Subject | Board/Institute | Country | Passing Year |
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| Ph.D. | Language Documentation & Field Linguistics | Monash University and IIT Bombay | Australia | 2024 |
| Masters | Linguistics | University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | 2012 |
| Bachelor | Linguistics | University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | 2011 |
| H.S.C | Science | Dhaka | Bangladesh | 2006 |
| S.S.C | Science | Jessore | Bangladesh | 2004 |
| Title | Organization | Location | From Date | To Date |
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| Associate Professor | Department of Linguistics, University of Dhaka | Dhaka | Jun 2026 | Present |
| Assistant Professor | Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | Sep 2016 | Jun 2026 |
| Lecturer | Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, University of Dhaka | Bangladesh | Nov 2013 | Sep 2016 |
Research Interest
| Subject | Description | Research Interest (Goal, Target Indicator) |
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| Psycholinguistics | Language acquisition and learning; experimental methods; language and mind |
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| Corpus linguistics | Corpus theories and application; Bangla corpus | |
| Philosophy of language | The queries and explorations on language narrated by the philosophers | |
| Language and digital media | Languages used in different social and online media, e-contents and their interactive nature; CMC and language technology based aspects in Bangla | |
| Language documentation and description | Documentation of the endangered languages through extensive fieldwork, creating archives and developing policy-making frameworks | |
| Morphosyntax | Morphology and syntax; the merge of these two core branches of linguistics |
Project/Research Supervision
| Level of Study | Title | Supervisor | Co-Supervisor(s) | Name of Student(s) | Area of Research | Current Completion |
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| No project/research supervision is found | ||||||
Project/Research Work
| Subject | Project Name | Source of Fund | From Date | To Date | Collaboration |
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| Researcher | BLTeae - Erasmus Plus Project | European Union | 26-06-2019 | 26-06-2019 | Aix-Marseille Université |
| Research Associate | The Ethno-linguistic Survey of Bangladesh | International Mother Language Institute (IMLI), Ministry of Education, Government of Bangladesh. | 26-06-2019 | 26-06-2019 | Ministry of Education, GoB; Department of Anthropology, DU |
| Lead Researcher | The Documentation of Kol Language in Bangladesh | ELDP, Germany | ELDP |
Invited Talk
| SL | Invited Talk |
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| 2 | Talk Title: Reassessing the Level of Endangerment and Investigating the Integration of Community Collaborative Initiatives: A Contemporary Study on Language Documentation in Bangladesh
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| 3 | Session: Morphosyntax in field linguistics, Sasheen Summer School in Linguistics (SSS)
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| 4 | Talk Title: Use of technology in the documentation and revitalization of the indigenous languages in Bangladesh
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| SL | Collaboration & Membership Name | Type | Membership Year | Expire Year |
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| 1 | HIGA Alumni, Vitoria Gasteiz, Spain | General | 2025 | Life Time |
| 2 | General Member | Monash Linguistics Society, Wellington Rd, Monash University Clayton, Vic 3800 | 2018 | 2021 |
| Book Section | |
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| 1 |
মাশরুর ইমতিয়াজ "The Role of Information Technology in Preserving Indigenous and Minority Languages: Challenges and Way Forward / ক্ষুদ্র নৃ-গোষ্ঠীর ভাষা সংরক্ষণে তথ্য প্রযুক্তির ব্যবহার সমস্যা ও করণীয়."
বাংলাদেশের ক্ষুদ্র নৃ-গোষ্ঠীর ক্ষমতায়নে ভাষা/ The Role of Language in the Empowerment of Small Ethnic Groups in Bangladesh. Dhaka, Bangladesh: International Mother Language Institute (IMLI), 2026 167-192 .
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| 2 |
Imtiaz, Mashrur and Hassan, Azizul "‘The Urges of Language Adaptation for Economic Development within the Garos of Bangladesh’."
Indigenous People and Economic Development: An International Perspective. Oxford,: Oxford, OX14 4RN, UK: Routledge., 2016 307-324 .
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| 3 |
Imtiaz, Mashrur "‘Sentence Comprehension in Bengali Patients with Broca’s Aphasia’."
Aphasia and Bengali Language: Linguistic Analysis. Hakim Arif [Editor] Dhaka: Books Fair, 2015 77-105 .
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| 4 |
Imtiaz, Mashrur and Murshed, SIkder Monoare "Inclusive Practices in Bangladesh - Multilingual Education for Indigenous Children."
Moving towards Inclusive Education Diverse National Engagements with Paradoxes of Policy and Practice. Lise Claiborne and Vishalache Balakrishnan (Eds.) Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill | Sense, May 2020 159–174 .
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| Journal Article | |
| 1 |
Mashrur Imtiaz : Use of technology in the documentation and revitalization of the indigenous languages in Bangladesh,
Mother Language (A bi-annual research journal on language and related issues) , vol.5 , no.1-2 (January-December 2021 Issue) International Mother Language Institute (IMLI), Dhaka, Bangladesh , pp.49-64 , 2023
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Imtiaz, Mashrur and Dustin A. Chacón, Shirsho Dasgupta, Sikder M. Murshed, Mina Dan and Colin Phillips : ‘Locality and Word Order in Active Dependency Formation in Bangla’,
Frontiers in Psychology , no.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01235/full , 2016
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| 3 |
Imtiaz, Mashrur : ‘Internet Language and Internet Linguistics: Primary Reading and Analysis’ [In Bangla],
Dhaka University Journal of Linguistics , vol.13-16 , 2016
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| Conference Proceedings | |
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Mashrur Imtiaz "The connection between Plato’s ‘Cratylus’ and Frege’s ‘Sense and Reference’ in the discussion of the philosophy of language: A continuum or an exploration?."
DULC 2023: Multilingualism, Multimodality and Language Research
Dhaka, Bangladesh: 2023
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| 2 |
Mashrur Imtiaz "Lexical Borrowing in Kol from Banglaː Categorization, Effects, and Borrowing Hierarchy."
SALA36 & LSN43
Nepal, Kathmandu: 2022
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| 3 |
Imtiaz, Mashrur and Murshed, Sikder Monoare "Indigenous Language Documentation and Language Education through Social Media and Digital Contents in Bangladesh."
1st International Conference of Education in the Digital Ecosystem (ICEdDE2019)
Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia.: Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index-Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH)., 2019
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Imtiaz, Mashrur and Murshed, Sikder Monoare "Academic partnership building with the indigenous communities for creating an endangered language archive: Bangladesh perspective."
South East Asian Social Innovation Network
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: 2018
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| Award Type | Title | Year | Country | Description |
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| International | HIGA 2025 Travel Grant | 2025 | Spain | Dr. Imtiaz presented his research on the digital divide in minority language communities in Bangladesh in HIGA 2025 was awarded a 2024 Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) Small Grant to document the endangered Kol language. His research focuses on preserving indigenous socio-cultural oral histories through audiovisual recording and open-access archiving. Dr. Imtiaz strongly advocates for community-first language development and integrating minority languages into modern digital platforms. |
| International | ELDP Grantee 2024 | 2024 | Germany | Dr. Mashrur Imtiaz is 2024 Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) grantee. He secured an ELDP Small Grant to focus on The Documentation of Kol Narratives in Bangladesh. Kol is a severely endangered Munda language spoken by minority communities in the country's northwestern region. Dr. Imtiaz uniquely began this fieldwork from scratch due to a total lack of existing foundational texts. His project heavily prioritizes capturing visual narratives to preserve the community's rich cultural heritage.
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| International | IITB-Monash PhD Research Scholarship | 2017 | Australia | Awarded under the joint partnership between the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IITB), India and Monash University, Australia. The scholarship is funded by Monash University and the PhD is a dual badged one. The main concentration of this research would be documentation of the endangered languages of South Asia. |
| National | Dean's Award | 2014 | Bangladesh | Dean's merit award for academic excellence by Faculty of Arts, DU. |