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LINGUISTIC VARIATIONS ACROSS DISCIPLINES A MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF PAKISTANI RESEARCH ARTICLES

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04      10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04      Published : Mar 2019

Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles

Abstract

    The current research explores the linguistic identity of Pakistani Academic writing register of Research Articles. Previous quantitative works on Pakistani academic writing have been insufficient due to unrepresentative data and lack of internal and external comparison. This study discovers the language of Pakistani research articles as an academic writing register by investigating the statistically significant linguistic variation among the disciplines of Pakistani Research articles, using Biber’s (1988) five textual dimensions. The results of the study exhibit Pakistani academic research articles language as highly impersonal, non-persuasive, explicit, nonnarrative and informational.

    (1) Aniqa Rashid
    Assistant Professor, National University of Modern Languages Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Muhammad Asim Mahmood
    Professor, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
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    APA : Rashid, A., & Mahmood, M. A. (2019). Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles. Global Social Sciences Review, IV(I), 23-33. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04

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    CHICAGO : Rashid, Aniqa, and Muhammad Asim Mahmood. 2019. "Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles." Global Social Sciences Review, IV (I): 23-33 doi: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04

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    HARVARD : RASHID, A. & MAHMOOD, M. A. 2019. Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles. Global Social Sciences Review, IV, 23-33.

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    MHRA : Rashid, Aniqa, and Muhammad Asim Mahmood. 2019. "Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles." Global Social Sciences Review, IV: 23-33

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    OXFORD : Rashid, Aniqa and Mahmood, Muhammad Asim (2019), "Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles", Global Social Sciences Review, IV (I), 23-33

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    TURABIAN : Rashid, Aniqa, and Muhammad Asim Mahmood. "Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles." Global Social Sciences Review IV, no. I (2019): 23-33. https://doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04