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Vol. 3 No. 1 (2023)
The International "Journal of Academic Research for Humanities"

Research Articles

Linguistic Variation Across Pakistani Male and Female Writers of Short Stories in English: A Multidimensional Analysis

Published 30-03-2023

  • Shumaila Aman
    • ,
  • Dr. Muhammad Asif
    • ,
  • Aamir Nazeer

Shumaila Aman
Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan

Dr. Muhammad Asif
Assistant Professor, Ghazi University Dera Ghazi Khan

Aamir Nazeer
M.Phil. Scholar, Government College University Faisalabad

Abstract

The current study inspects some distinguished discourse features in the corpus of short stories in English by Pakistani male and female writers. This study highlights both the functional use of language and linguistic variations in English short stories of Pakistani male and female writers. This study analyzes the linguistic features adopted by Pakistani male and female writers of short stories in English and inspects how far both genders are different from one another in the functional use of language. The quantitative research method was used in this research. These features are analyzed through a Multidimensional analysis tool. This tool contains elaborate linguistic features. The purposive corpus of 68 stories has been organized for this research to analyze and extract specific linguistic features. A multidimensional tool (MAT v 1.3.2) is used to analyze and tag the data on Bibber’s (1988) five functional dimensions. These dimensions indicate the density of information, narrative characteristics, the explicitness of text, degree of persuasion, and abstract information. Moreover, the comparison indicates that male discourse is highly dense with information as compared to female discourse. While, on the other hand, female texts indicate more non-abstract information as compared to male texts. Therefore, it can be concluded that linguistic variation exists between Pakistani male and female writers of short stories in English. Other short stories may be examined in future research. This might help obtain more precise findings. The future researcher would gather data from various sources that achieve more precise results.

Keywords

Dimensions, Gender, Linguistic variation, multidimensional analysis, Pakistani writer, short stories

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