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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2020(V-IV).01      10.31703/gssr.2020(V-IV).01      Published : Dec 2020

Bilingual Identity of Pashtoon Immigrants: Insights from Lahore

    The aim of this article is to examine the ways through which the immigrant Pashto speech community constructs their bilingual identity in the multicultural settings of Lahore. The participants for the research were selected through purposive sampling technique. The data of the study was collected via interviews from 10 adults of Pashto speech community, who have been living in Lahore for more than five years. The study is based on the philosophy of Spolsky's (2004) Language Policy Framework, which considers language practices, beliefs and management as different ways of constructing identities. The nature of the data is descriptive and qualitative, and thematic analysis was used while the data coding was performed through Atlas.ti software. The findings revealed that the Pashto speakers use their first language (Pashto) in their home environment to maintain their language, identity and culture while using Urdu and English outside their home domain at their workplaces.

    Bilingual, Identity, Language Practices, Language Belief, Language Management, Multicultural
    (1) Amina Khalid
    Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Arshad Ali Khan
    Department of Linguistics and Communication, University of Management and Technology, Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan.