Analysis of the Urduization Trend in Bapsi Sidhwa’s Novels

doi:10.7176/jep/12-11-06

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Writers instinctively convey exactly intended meanings in a communication
The presence of Urduized nouns in both the novels suggests that Pakistani English is in a process of Urduization (Baumgardner, 1993)
It was observed through the classification of categories that the number of Urduized nouns belonging to individual categories for both the novels was not the same

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Writers instinctively convey exactly intended meanings in a communication. They quite often find linguistic resources of one language to be insufficient in communicating the desired expressions so they make use of other languages, native, in their writings to convey accurate message in an appropriate context as well as to show the rich cultural impact of a society on a particular language (Mahmood & Shah, 2011).English is considered to play a vital role in ‘globalization’ of this world (Bottery, 2006). Writers instinctively convey exactly intended meanings in a communication They quite often find linguistic resources of one language to be insufficient in communicating the desired expressions so they make use of other languages, native, in their writings to convey accurate message in an appropriate context as well as to show the rich cultural impact of a society on a particular language (Mahmood & Shah, 2011). It is spoken in all parts of the world with approximately 430 million L2 users and 330 million L1 users (Crystal, 2003) These statistics are a clear indication of the fact that L2 speakers of English language are greater in number than those of L1 (Aravamudan, 2006). Indigenization involves the processes of Americanization, Africanization and Urduization etc

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