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ANGLICIZING URDU IN PAKISTANI ENGLISH FASHION AND LIFESTYLE BLOGS A MORPHO SYNTACTIC ANALYSIS OF URDU WORDS IN EXPRESS TRIBUNE

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-IV).02      10.31703/gdpmr.2022(V-IV).02      Published : Dec 2022

Anglicizing Urdu in Pakistani English Fashion and Lifestyle Blogs: A Morpho- Syntactic Analysis of Urdu Words in Express Tribune

Abstract

    Urdu words in the Pakistani variety of English have been anglicized because they follow the morpho-syntactic rules of the English language rather than Urdu. This present research paper identifies the process and the extent to which Urdu words in fashion and lifestyle blogs of Tribune.pk are being anglicized. The study involves analysis of the morpho-syntactic parameters involved in the process and the frequency of anglicized words and the reasons for Anglicization of Urdu in these blogs. Data from the selected text has been extracted by employing Content analysis and is further put to analysis through Rasool’s (2006) and Baumgardner et a’s (1996) models to find the morpho-syntactic parameters involved, the frequency of and the viable reasons for the anglicizing Urdu words respectively. The study finds that Urdu words in the selected text are anglicized for two reasons; either to fill the lexical gap or to retain the culture specific meanings.

    Anglicization, English-Urdu Hybridization, Pakistani English

    (1) Aiman Gul
    M.Phil. Scholar, Deparment of English, Abdul Wali Khan University, Mardan, KP, Pakistan.
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