International Journal of English Literature and Culture
 

International Journal of English Literature and Culture

Vol. 3(5), pp. 150-159, May, 2015

 ISSN: 2360-7831

DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2015.046

Research Paper

Distinctiveness of Pakistani English in Online Travel Guides of Pakistan

Mehwish Noor¹, Behzad Anwar², Bahram Kazemian³, Riaz Ahmed Mangrio⁴ and Fakharh Muhabat⁵

¹Scholar of M Phil English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.

E-mail:noorlinguist@gmail.com

²Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan. E-mail: behzad.anwar@uog.edu.pk

³Department of English, College of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran. E-mail: bahram_kazemian@yahoo.com

⁴Assistant Professor, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan. E-mail: riaz.mangrio@uog.edu.pk

⁵Scholar of M Phil English Linguistics, Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan.

E-mail: biyakhan38@yahoo.com

Accepted 13 May 2015

The study highlights the distinctive features of Pakistani English (PE) in a new genre: online travel guides of Pakistan uploaded by Pakistan Tourism. The data has been gathered through internet resource. British National Corpus has been used for the conformation of the distinctiveness of those features. The features highlighted in the paper validate the previous studies in order to take a serious step towards the codification of PE. It also presents new features such as a divergent use of punctuation and orthography of compound words from BSE and contributes to the existing body of knowledge. It is helpful for the researchers interested in a compilation of register based lexis and also offers a number of dimensions for further research by taking new genres into account in the study of non-native varieties of English. It also provides a good source of data for the compilation of corpus of PE.

Keywords: Non-native varieties of English; South Asian English; Pakistani English; British National Corpus
 

Cite This Article As: Noor M, Anwar B, Kazemian B, Mangrio RA, Muhabat F (2015). Distinctiveness of Pakistani English in Online Travel Guides of Pakistan. Inter. J. Eng. Lit. Cult. 3(5): 150-159

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