A comparative study of the use of adverbs in British and Pakistani English

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dc.contributor.authorAkhtar Ali
dc.date.accessioned2015-03-12T16:22:33Z
dc.date.available2015-03-12T16:22:33Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.description.abstractThe present research is a comparative study of the use of adverbs in the Pakistani English with that of the British English. This research is a corpus based analysis and Pakistani Written English (PWE) and the British English have been used as corpora in this research.For the purpose of present study, a general purpose corpus of 25 text categories for both the Pakistani Written English and British English has been made. The classification of adverbs as circumstance adverbs, stance adverbs and linking adverbs from Longman Grammar of Written and Spoken English by Biber et al. is taken as the basis for this classification. On the basis of theirfunctions in the clause, adverbs have been categorized into three sub-categories: Circumstance; Stance; and Linking adverb. The study is a comparative analysis of 46 circumstance adverbs, 25 stance adverbs and 24 linking adverbs. This study is done on two levels: the first level is to determine the frequencies of the adverbs, and in the second level, the positions of the adverbs in the Pakistani English are comparatively analyzed with that of the British English. It is also observed that how the positions of adverbs in the Pakistani English vary from that of the native varieties. The frequencies and positions of adverbs have manually been studied. The sub-categories are further sub-divided on the basis of semantic functions, to study the variation of Pakistani English from the native variety regarding the use of adverbs. The averages have also been drawn to study the differences between the two varieties. Consequently, it is determined by the present research that variant and significant variations occur in the patterns of adverbs and adverbials in PWE with reference to frequency and position. Consequently, the variations consolidate the view that Pakistani English is a divergent variety of English.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://escholar.umt.edu.pk/handle/123456789/1489
dc.publisherUniversity of Management and Technologyen_US
dc.subjectM.Phil Thesisen_US
dc.subjectEnglish Language and Literatureen_US
dc.subjectBritish Englishen_US
dc.subjectPakistani Englishen_US
dc.titleA comparative study of the use of adverbs in British and Pakistani Englishen_US
dc.titleA comparative study of the use of adverbs in british and Pakistani englishen_us
dc.typeThesisen_US
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