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Linguistic Variation across Press Reportage in Pakistani Print Media: A Multi-Dimensional Analysis
Abstract
Press reportage in Pakistani English newspapers is a great source of public education. It narrates every topic ranging from news to literature. The present study tries to explore the linguistic variation across press reportage in Pakistani print media by conducting multi-dimensional analysis based on Biber's (1988) textual dimensions, which is regarded as the best alternative approach to analyzing register variation studies. Statistical linguistic differences have been found among newspapers on each sub-category of Pakistani press reportage on Biber's (1988) textual dimensions. The analysis of the study reveal that the language of The Frontier Post newspaper is most distinct on all Biber's (1988) textual dimensions. Findings also reveal, that unlike British Press reportage, Pakistani press reportage is more informational, narrative, explicit, covert in persuasion and there is more abstract discourse production.
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