Repertus: Journal of Linguistics, Language Planning and Policy

Norman Fairclough’s Model as a Research Tool in the Critical Discourse Analysis of Poem ‘If You Want to Know Me’

Maryam Sabir — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Noemia De Sousa, an African poetess, in her poem, if You Want to Know Me. She explores the postcolonial themes of revolution, cultural identity and abrogation of the English language. The present study covers most of the aspects of the cruel treatment of White Men over Africans. The qualitative research approach is used as it is a systematically predefined set of procedures to answer the research questions. Norman Fairclough’s model of Critical Discourse Analysis has been used to reveal the power misused by the colonizers and the resistance of power by the colonized in postcolonial Literature, the main aim of CDA is to analyze the enactment and resistance of power in the given text. With the help of Fairclough’s model, the Postcolonial context of the poetess, ideology and power relations have been explored in the text. Fairclough’s approach to discourse analysis focuses on the language of the text as well as concerned with what happens in a particular text. These two concerns are made through the way in which texts are analyzed in CDA. The study reveals the cultural identity crisis and white hegemony and suffering of Africans as key features in colonial discourse. Language is just a tool to deconstruct the prejudice against Africans which is used by the poetess to protest against the colonizers in this poem.

Global English, World Englishes and English as a Lingua Franca: Usage of Terms and their Ideological Background

Wafa Mansoor Buriro — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

This paper aims at describing the usage of and ideological backgrounds behind three terms: Global English, World Englishes, and English as a Lingua Franca. To a layman or a beginner in the field of linguistics, these terms may seem similar; they may even be used interchangeably. For looking at the domains of their usages, and finding out the underlying ideologies, various studies were reviewed. Each term is described separately along with its ideological background. After that, a synthesis is put forward under the heading of which similarities and differences among the three terms have been noted. The study reveals major ideological differences among GE, WE and ELF. They also stand on different levels of hegemony too.

An Analysis of Urdu Nominal Phrases based on the Theory of X-bar

Sarfaraz Ali, Dr. Mualimin, M.Hum — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Syntax and Morphology determine the rules that govern the structure of any language. Sentences, phrases, and words are the hierarchies of language syntactic structures. This paper has discussed one of these constructions which is the phrase. It takes the Urdu nominal phrase for the analysis under the eye X bar theory of phrase by Chomsky (1970). The research has been carried out qualitatively with a descriptive-analytical approach. The theoretical framework for the study is “The X-bar schema and X-bar theory of phrase”, which aims to construct and govern the phrases of all-natural languages for computational grammar.

Researching on Analysis and creating Corpus from Primary level Sindhi language Book for Sindhi

Naveen Talpur, Mir Jahanzeb Talpur, Timotheous Samar — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Sindhi is an amusing vernacular with a large abundance of pieces of literature and non-literary works. Despite the availability of several books, newspapers, magazines, and internet resources for developing Sindhi text corpora, a suitable and effective textual corpus could not be generated and offered accessible for investigation, language characteristics research, semantics assessment, and information gathering systems. The paucity of tools for computational linguistics research and NLP apps for Sindhi is stimulating complications at this time. Moreover, we have built Sindhi text libraries to provide computer linguistics, NLP specialists, and academics with text resources. The Sindh Text Book Board and primary school textbooks are used to create the Sindhi text corpus. Using the 2-gram approach of the n-gram model, using the Document Term Matrix and TF-IDF models, a Sindhi belief text dataset is produced and evaluated. The dataset might be useful for research on linguistic suggested work, topic detection, and sentiment classification by aspect.

Exploring the Sindhi-Speaking Students’ Perception on the Influence of English Language (L2) on Sindhi Language (L1) at the Public University

Iram Panhwar, Nishfa Rajper — Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0000

The widely used term borrowing is used to portray a mechanism through which one language obtains new linguistic features from other languages. In the Sindhi speech community, lexical borrowing is a common linguistics feature along with code-switching and mixing. It is sometimes caused by the lack of equivalent lexical items and many other reasons. This research aims to investigate the influence of lexical borrowing from the English language on the Sindhi language. The methodology followed in the current research is qualitative and data was collected through semi-structured interviews (n=8) using convenience sampling. The collected data was analyzed through thematic analysis based on Braun and Clarke’s model (2006). The research findings suggest that lexical borrowing is leaving a negative as well as positive effect on the Sindhi language.