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

Aniqa Rashid and Muhammad Asim Mahmood
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Aniqa Rashid: Assistant Professor,
Muhammad Asim Mahmood: Professor

Global Social Sciences Review, 2019, vol. 4, issue 1, 34-48

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.

Keywords: Pakistani English; Register Variation; Research Articles; Academic Writing; Multidimensional Analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04

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