Linguistic Variations across Disciplines: A Multidimensional Analysis of Pakistani Research Articles
Journal Title: Global Social Sciences Review - Year 2019, Vol 4, Issue 1
Abstract
The current research explores the linguistic identity of Pakistani Academic writing register of Research Articles. Previous quantitative works on Pakistani academic writing have been insufficient due to unrepresentative data and lack of internal and external comparison. This study discovers the language of Pakistani research articles as an academic writing register by investigating the statistically significant linguistic variation among the disciplines of Pakistani Research articles, using Biber’s (1988) five textual dimensions. The results of the study exhibit Pakistani academic research articles language as highly impersonal, non-persuasive, explicit, nonnarrative and informational.
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Aniqa Rashid, Muhammad Asim Mahmood
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- DOI 10.31703/gssr.2019(IV-I).04
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