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Code Mixing and Language Hybridization

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...

Bilingualism and Code Switching

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...

Ernest Hemingway as a Novelist

SHUAIB ASGHAR DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH GOVT. RAZVIA ISLAMIA COLLEGE HAROONABAD, PAKISTAN Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century fiction , while his life of adventure and his public image influenced later generations. He was famous for his novels, short stories and essays, with works that include: "The Sun Also Rises" (1926), "A Farewell to Arms" (1929), "For Whom the Bell Tolls" (1940) and "The Old Man and the Sea" (1952). Many of his works are considered classics of American literature . As a novelist, Hemingway is often assigned a place among the writers of �the lost generation� , along with Faulkner, Fitzgerald, John Dos Passos and Sinclair Lewis. These writers, including Ernest Hemingway, tried to show the loss the First World War had caused in the social, moral and psychological spheres of human life. They also reveal the horror, the fear an...