Teaching the Differences in the Use of Adjectives between Writers of Urdu and English: A Corpus-based Analysis

Ghulam Mujtaba Yasir; Ajaz Shaheen; Iqra Aizad Khosa

doi:10.47205/plhr.2021(5-II)1.39

Teaching the Differences in the Use of Adjectives between Writers of Urdu and English: A Corpus-based Analysis

Authors

Ghulam Mujtaba Yasir

Assistant Professor, Department of English, Government Associate College for Boys, D. G. Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

Dr. Ajaz Shaheen

Assistant Professor, Department of Education, Lasbella University of Water, Agriculture and Marine Sciences, Uthal, Balochistan, Pakistan

Iqra Aizad Khosa

M. Phil Scholar, Department of English, Ghazi University D. G. Khan, Punjab, Pakistan

DOI: https://doi.org/10.47205/plhr.2021(5-II)1.39

Keywords

Adjectives Corpus-based Analysis English Writers Urdu Writers

Abstract

This study investigates the difference in the use of adjectives between Urdu and English writers in a pedagogical perspective. The study gets two writers from Urdu language and two from English. Nicholaparks’s The Choice and Moth Smoke by Mohsin Hamid from English writers and Mta e Jan Hai Tu by Farhat Ishtiaq and Amarbail by Umaira Ahmed are selected from Urdu writers. Corpus Software works with English language and this is the main reason of manual collection. The researchers selected the most frequently used adjectives. On the other side the researchers compared the data with English Novels. For this purpose, the researchers use the software, Antconc3.2.4 version. The research was quantitative in his approach. At the end of this research, the researcher tries to prove that Urdu writers use more gender oriented adjectives.