Gender prestige and code choices

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dc.contributor.authorMoazzam Ali Malik
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-19T11:33:53Z
dc.date.available2025-11-19T11:33:53Z
dc.date.issued2010
dc.description.abstractThis study aims at analyzing how the^ociaj parameter of gender affects the choices of the codes* among Punjabi, Urdu and English bilinguais in Pakistan. It examines any possible gender difference in the pattern of choices of codes among these bilinguais. It looks at how this gender difference in the tendency and pattern of code choices is related with the speaker's gender and the social status and prestige of the language. In a bid to verify the existence of what Fasold refers as 'the sociolinguistic gender patt^' (92), and what Labov considers 'the first principal of sexulTdifferentiatioiT" ("Intersection of Sex" 205), this research answers the question that whether or not men and women tend to use higher-status language in different proportions under the similar social and situational contexts and domains. Causal-comparative research design has been opted for this study. The code choices behavior data was collected from the sample population of 180 students, 90 boys and 90 girls purposely selected from the two campuses of Punjab College, Gujrat. The selected population comprised of young (17-21 years old) Punjabi, Urdu and English bilinguais from male and female 'homogeneous' gender groups. Both the gender groups were homogeneous as during the stage of sampling a Sociolinguistic Questionnaire was used to make sure that both the gender groups were almost similar to each other in their social, psychological, ethnic and linguistic background. The code choice behavior of our selected sample population was studied at two levels, i.e., a) at societal or domain level and b) at the inter-personal level. The code choice behavior data under the similar social and sitiiational situation was measured at societal or domain level by using a Language Behavior Questionnaire. On the other hand, code choices behavior under the influence of internal and personal factors was measured by generating and recording a discussion between 4-5 member friends' groups on a given topic within the same-gender conversation. Our data was qualitatively analyzed to work out the frequencies of code choices both at domain level and interpersonal level. The results verified the existence of sociolinguistic gender-pattern of code choices among Punjabi, Urdu and English bilinguais. •Code Is a widely used term In soclollngulstie researeh and lu meaning ranges from language, dialect, variety to lexis and motpttemes. In this study, while discussing language hehavlor at societal or domain level, I have used the term code to mean language and hence code choice as language choice. Wheteas, 1 have used the term 'code' to mean the lexis and hence -code choices' as -lexis choices' for the discussion regarding the corpus analysis of the recorded data.
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/10846
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherUMT Lahore
dc.titleGender prestige and code choices
dc.title.alternativeA sociolinguistics study of punjabiurdu and english bilinguals
dc.typeThesis
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