English Literature

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Code-mixing refers to the mixing of two languages at the word level. If we consider our situation we can find that domains related to education, media and profession are those where people use to mix the code. Teachers while talking in classroom often blends English words with those of Urdu. Media men and specially hosts at TV and radio etc mix the code frequently. They use a blend of Urdu with English and English with Urdu in talk shows and live programs. You can often find such kind of examples of code-mixing in TV talk shows. Aik aur program� Hamarey studio�C hhota sa break�B ari bari companiyan, Depend karta hai �Protest huye hain �K oi bara initiative� Exports hit ho rahi hain LANGUAGE HYBRIDIZATION Language hybridization is a resultant process of frequent code-mixing . Sometimes, even the grammar or structure of one language is applied to the vocabulary of another. So when two or more languag...

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Bilingualism is the ability to use two languages effectively. Monolingualism refers to the ability to use a single language. The ability to use multiple languages is known as Multilingualism. �          Bilingual or multilingual is a person who can speak two or more than two languages with equal or less equal proficiency. �          A society is called bilingual or multilingual if the people there speak more than one language. About half of the world's population is multi / bilingual. It is, in fact, very hard to find a monolingual community or society like Japan etc. While talking about sub continent in general and specially Pakistan we come to know that we are a multilingual community. We use Urdu as a medium of communication in our schools and colleges. Further it also serves as �lingua franca� in our country. We use d...