Code-Switching in Urdu Books of Punjab Text Book Board, Lahore, Pakistan

Mehwish Noor; Behzad Anwar; Fakharh Muhabat; Bahram Kazemian

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Code-Switching in Urdu Books of Punjab Text Book Board, Lahore, Pakistan

Mehwish Noor, Behzad Anwar, Fakharh Muhabat, Bahram Kazemian

Published in Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 1, Issue 2)

Received: 25 April 2015 Accepted: 4 May 2015 Published: 9 May 2015

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Abstract

The study highlights English code-switching in Punjab Urdu textbooks. The research aims at finding and categorizing Urdu-English code-switches. Another rationale behind the study is to present Urdu equivalents of the switches from an Urdu-English dictionary; for instance, adakar for actor and sayyah for tourist. Textbooks of 5th, 6th, 9th and 10th class are selected for data collection and analysis. A number of instances are observed at morpheme, word, phrase and clause levels. Data is analyzed qualitatively. The data analysis shows switches at all the mentioned levels. The researchers propose a revision of the existing textbooks in the light of the given equivalents and a careful scrutiny of the compilation of future textbooks to preserve the purity of Urdu language.

Published in	Communication and Linguistics Studies (Volume 1, Issue 2)
DOI	10.11648/j.cls.20150102.11
Page(s)	13-20
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Keywords

Code-Switching; Loanwords, Intrasentential Code-Switching; Intersentential Code-Switching; Textbooks, Urdu

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Mehwish Noor

Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan
Behzad Anwar

Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan
Fakharh Muhabat

Department of English, University of Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan
Bahram Kazemian

Department of English, College of Persian Literature and Foreign Languages, Tabriz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tabriz, Iran

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