Bidisha Som is an Associate Professor of Linguistics in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT Guwahati. With fifteen years of teaching experience at IITG, she has taught courses on bilingualism, language- culture- cognition relationship, language and thought and sociolinguistics. Her research work is currently focused on language processing among bilinguals, language and culture interaction, language acquisition among typical and atypical children and creation of ICT tools for language teaching. She has received various grants towards exploring the cognitive mechanisms of language processing in domains like sensory metaphor, heritage bilingualism (with specific attention to socio-cultural and linguistic context) and so on.

IIT Guwahati
bidisha@iitg.ac.in