Urdu Newspapers Anglicized in Pakistan:A Corpus Based Study
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2016
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University of Management and Technology Lahore
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In Pakistani society, English loanwords are frequently used in spoken discourse. This has now moved to written discourse as well. This corpus-based study aimed to explore the extent of the use of English loanwords in Pakistani Urdu newspapers. An expected outcome was to generate newly verifiable data of any English words if being used in Pakistani Urdu newspapers and to find out if they had Urdu alternatives available or not. The data was collected from four Pakistani Urdu newspapers and a corpus of more than 2600 words was developed. Content categories were created and with the help of Natural language toolkit, the data was analyzed as per different classifications. The results revealed that Pakistani Urdu newspapers are being Anglicized and majority of the loanwords happen to be nouns. These loanwords do have their Urdu alternatives available. The analysis showed that this tendency is alike in all newspapers and also it is not confined to any specific news section. The findings are certainly encouraging and paving the way for future research. It is hoped that the study will contribute to the growing literature on corpus-based Urdu studies.
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Pakistani Urdu newspapers, Corpus Based Study, M.Phil Thesis