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02 Pages : 11-28

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-I).02      10.31703/gssr.2023(VIII-I).02      Published : Mar 2023

Transitivity in Pakistani English: A Corpus-based Approach towards Mapping Frequency Profiles

    This paper aims at building frequency profiles based on transitivity patterns of a small number of text corpora belonging to Pakistani English newspaper editorials. The profiles have been built by using UAM Corpus Tool (O’ Donnell, 2008) to explore transitivity features. The empirical analysis then has been compared with the frequency profiles of English language (Matthiessen, 2006 and Stubbs, 1996) to establish common features. The present work draws inspiration by Michael Halliday who is known as one of the pioneer corpus linguists since his early work on the Chinese language (Halliday 1956, cited in Halliday 1993). Mapping his (ibid) study on the BNC model he concluded that the relative frequencies of past and non-past are about 50-50 and the relative frequencies of positive and negative are about 9-1 (reported in Halliday 1993). Similarly, the present study looks closer to Standard English, and this is partially because the editorials are written by professional writers, and are well edited before printing.

    Systemic Functional Grammar, Transitivity, Corpus Linguistics, Frequency Profiles, Pakistani English
    (1) Tazanfal Tehseem
    Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Sargodha, Sargodha, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Mubina Talaat
    Professor, Department of English, Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Punjab, Pakistan.

07 Pages : 66-74

http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-III).07      10.31703/gssr.2022(VII-III).07      Published : Sep 2022

Ideological Underpinning of Political Slogans of Mainstream Political Parties of Pakistan: A Critical Discourse Analysis

    Language is not merely a means of communication; it is also a carrier of the ideology of the people who speak it though it may not be easily discernible at times. This implies that language and ideology bear a very close relationship with each other. The present study reports how language and ideology are interwoven in the form of slogans found in the political gatherings and rallies of three mainstream political parties of Pakistan: PMLN(Pakistan Muslim League, N),PPP(Pakistan People's Party) and PTI(Pakistan Tehreek e- Insaf). To critically analyse the selected slogans,methods of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) offered by Van Dijk and specific meanings which are not clear to the ordinary audience. The present study also aimed at finding out how the hidden ideology manipulates the judgements and reaction of the public.

    Slogans, Ideology, Power, Lexicalization, Transitivity, Systematic Functional Linguistics
    (1) Hamed Hussain Shah
    Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (2) Javed Iqbal
    Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan.
    (3) Arshad Mahmood
    National University of Modern Languages, Islamabad, Pakistan.