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- Title
A multidimensional study of interactive registers in Pakistani and US English.
- Authors
Shakir, Muhammad; Deuber, Dagmar
- Abstract
The present study is a multidimensional analysis of spoken and interactive online registers—comments, Facebook groups, Facebook status updates, and tweets—of Pakistani English in comparison to U.S. English. Four dimensions of variation are identified, namely oral narrative, abstract informational versus first person focus, interactive focus on mental activities and feelings, and present and future activities. Dimension 1 and 2 are the most prominent indicators of regional variation, while some registers also show variation on dimensions 3 and 4. The results suggest that conveying abstract and other kind of information is the most prominent general communicative purpose in Pakistani registers. US English, in contrast, also has communicative purposes like the expression of feelings and narration, in addition to conveying information. It is also suggested that the Internet is providing new avenues of communication for non‐native speakers of English, which demands further study and inclusion of these registers in corpora of varieties of English around the world.
- Subjects
AMERICAN English language; CORPORA; LOANWORDS; LANGUAGE &; languages -- Foreign elements; NON-English speaking people
- Publication
World Englishes, 2018, Vol 37, Issue 4, p607
- ISSN
0883-2919
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/weng.12352