1st Edition

Pakistani Englishes Syntactic Variations

By Asma Iqbal Copyright 2018
114 Pages
by Routledge India

114 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

114 Pages 18 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge India

This book explores how non-native speakers, especially in postcolonial states, use English to communicate. Focusing on Pakistan, the monograph analyzes word categories, phrase and sentence structures used in the region and compares them to British English. It draws extensively from language used in the media and uses Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) parsers to develop the phrase structures for... Read more

Acknowledgements.  List of abbreviations.  1. Introduction  2. Background and Historical Perspective  3. Research Methodology  4. Results and Analysis  5. Conclusion.  Index

Biography

Asma Iqbal is Lecturer at Divisional Public School and College, Faisalabad, Pakistan. She has completed her MPhil from Riphah University, Faisalabad, Pakistan and has worked in several disciplines including CDA, Semiotics, Sociolinguistics and Syntax.