A sociolinguistic study of the use of vowel / a:/ and/ae / in English language in Punjab.
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2017
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
Abstract
The present sociolinguistics study investigates the use of the particular vowel/ / or / / in the English speaking community of Lahore, Punjab. The research is done with the special reference to English language vowel / / or / / in certain words of English speaking community of the Punjab. The study aims to explore the sociolinguistic reasons or causes of the use of a particular vowel accent, British/ / or American / / by focusing on the English speaking community of Lahore.
The sample size or the population of the research is 120 individuals selected from three distinct places of Lahore, The Daewoo Express Pakistan Bus Terminal Limited, The Quaid- e-Azam Library and The University of Management and Technology Library through convenient sampling because of easy and fast accessibility of the researcher by using quantitative methods of research. The scope of this study is limited to the English speaking community (L2) of Pakistan.
The data was collected through the passage reading, the wordlist and the structured interview by using questionnaire and by the audio recordings. The collected data was entered into SPSS. The crosstab tests were used to calculate the percentages and frequencies of the particular vowel .The null hypothesis regarding the higher secondary level of students and the English as a medium of instruction at the school level was rejected due to statistical significance as p ≤ 0.05 value. The scientific finding like significance level, frequencies and percentages determine the difference in the use of vowel sound / / or / / in the accent of English speaking community of Lahore.
The result indicates that there are two entirely different variants of a same vowel sound / /or/ /exist in the society. Most of the population prefer to use vowel sound / / or British accent as compared to vowel/ / or American accent. The O level education and the medium of instruction at school level are the two main causes behind the usage of American accent of the English language speech community.
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Supervised by:Dr. Nazir Ahmed Malik
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Use of Vowel, Sociolinguistics study, MS.Thesis