Abstract
Lexico-semantic variation with its socio-cultural significance, genuinely instilled in the tint of adaptation as well as innovation, has prompted many researchers and linguists to explore profoundly within the prolific soil of Pakistani English, while formulating its mark within the sphere of “New Englishes”. This “norm-developing” variety traces the accelerating concern in the momentum of diffusion of “World Englishes”, and consequently, adding to the evolution and development of English in non-native-contexts with its deep enriching essence. The principal goal of the present research work is to investigate lexico-semantic variation in Pakistani English newspapers along with the functional outcomes within the vibrant mould of perceptions based on context-dependent Pakistani socio-cultural scenarios in the light of Moag’s model based on “New Englishes”, Boas’ Cultural Relativism, Kachru’s Nativization and Acculturation with the conception of “Outer Circle” mainly connected to institutionalized Second Varieties of English. The study further analyzes two major lexico-semantic categories based on the corpus derived from two leading Pakistani English Newspapers. This corpus-based study took out the sample texts with their usual lengths, purposively chosen, from the real life. Findings of the study highlight that lexico-semantic categories in Pakistani English Newspapers are infused within the local aroma while having a diversity of colours of usage and elucidations in multifaceted functional settings of Pakistan. The study broadens the horizons while opening a wide range of opportunities for the researchers in grammar, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics etc. by means of construction and extension of corpora and drawing comparison with the other varieties of English.
Highlights
Language, being the principal articulator of socio-cultural conceptualizations, encompasses the psychometrics of the society entwined in attitudinal modifications, social insights, individual and group interactional patterns which further comprise the intrinsic component of language usage within the society
The principal goal of the present research work is to investigate lexico-semantic variation in Pakistani English newspapers along with the functional outcomes within the vibrant mould of perceptions based on context-dependent Pakistani socio-cultural scenarios in the light of Moag’s model based on “New Englishes”, Boas’ Cultural Relativism, Kachru’s Nativization and Acculturation with the conception of “Outer Circle” mainly connected to institutionalized Second Varieties of English
As the present study focuses on lexico-semantic features in Pakistani English Newspapers (“Dawn” & “The News”) so for the accomplishment of the objectives of the present study, newspapers and the selected sections comprising of national news and the news from the four most important cities of Pakistan, i.e., Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad, Quetta, sports’ news, top stories, opinions and editorials are considered for carrying out the analysis of the present study owing to the diversifying range of linguistic items and occurrence of “internal” modifications within a locally recognized norm
Summary
Language, being the principal articulator of socio-cultural conceptualizations, encompasses the psychometrics of the society entwined in attitudinal modifications, social insights, individual and group interactional patterns which further comprise the intrinsic component of language usage within the society. Are spreading their wings on the international horizon owing to the unparalleled broadening of the English language around the world This diversity of usage in multicultural frameworks is brought to light by Ethnologue (2017) which reveals that the overall figure of users of English in all countries has escalated up to 983,522,920 (as L1: 371,959,910; as L2: 611,563,010), which virtually envelops a quarter of the globe’s populace, who can understand it and are at least, in essence, dexterous users of both spoken or written English. It is interesting to note that the number of non-native English speakers is approximately double the number of native English speakers, with the number of non-native speakers recurrently mounting Such pluralizationin the form of “New Englishes” “have a long history of acculturation in new cultural and geographical contexts; they have a large range of functions in the local educational, administrative and legal systems” Nativization of the English Language by the local users takes ijel.ccsenet.org
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