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Linguistic Variation across Gender in Pakistani Print Media: a Multidimensional Analysis
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Alvi, Urooj Fatima Mahmood, Asim Rasool, Shafqat |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | The current study focuses some distinguished linguistic features of gender by observing the functional variation in newspaper editorials of Pakistani English newspaper (Pk. Ed.). It is conducted to specify the male and female language usage in the corpus of Pk. Ed. for determining the separate linguistic features. For addressing this question, multidimensional (MD) analysis [2] is used, which provides detailed grammatical features of the corpus. A varied dataset, having 300 editorials from two leading newspapers has been organized. The corpus for the present study, has been tagged for 67 linguistic features and statistical analysis has been led, to signify the sets of linguistic features. Five functional dimensions are used to distinguish the linguistic characteristics of male and female language patterns in the context of the Pakistani mass media. These dimensions provide an information level, narrative characteristics, situation positions, degree of persuasive language and mental style. Moreover, a contrast of male and female editorials with British editorials also shows linguistic variation. It indicates the female editorials are near to British editorials on two dimensions. On the contrary, the male editorials show quite different consequences among all dimensions. Therefore, it is proposed that linguistic variation exists in male and female editorial writing style with reference to the Pakistani community. |
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| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
