About
Dr Jyoti Jayal currently teaches Linguistics and English Language as an Assistant Professor at the School of Humanities & Social Sciences, Sharda University, Greater Noida, India. She earned her doctoral degree in English (Linguistics & Phonetics) from EFLU, Regional Centre, Lucknow, on the Pragmatic study of complaint strategies in English and Hindi with reference to politeness and gender. With expertise in Applied Linguistics, Pragmatics, English Language Teaching, and Second Language Acquisition, she has designed and taught courses in discourse analysis, lexicography, language and literature, and legal English. In addition, Dr Jayal has also presented and published papers in national and international conferences, and journals. She has authored a book on gender studies, published by Phoenix International Publications, and edited Literature and Transdisciplinarity, published by Macmillan Education India Pvt Ltd. Her association with teaching language and editing goes way back. She has previously worked with Thomson Press and Macmillan Education India Pvt. Ltd. Dr Jayal is a certified English Language expert by The Airports Authority of India (AAI). Furthermore, she has worked as a co-project director for a research project on ‘Hindu Semiotics which is funded by the ICSSR (Indian Council of Social Science Research).