Linguistic (in)visibility in Islamabad’s landscape: A nexus analysis of policies, practices and perceptions
- Авторлар: Hussain T.1, Nasir M.H.1, Khan A.1
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Мекемелер:
- National University of Modern Languages
- Шығарылым: Том 29, № 2 (2025)
- Беттер: 409-431
- Бөлім: Articles
- URL: https://bakhtiniada.ru/2687-0088/article/view/313433
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.22363/2687-0088-39624
- EDN: https://elibrary.ru/KXAJEY
- ID: 313433
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Аннотация
The linguistic landscape (LL) in multilingual communities often reflects the complex relationship of language policies, practices, and people’s perceptions of these policies and practices. This complex policy-practice-perception nexus leads to questions of linguistic inclusivity in contexts such as Pakistan. This study, therefore, attempted to find the nexus of spatial practices, language policies, and residents’ perceptions of language use in the LL of Islamabad. To improve the structure of the highlighted sentence, it may be rewritten as: Data included a sample of 1213 pictures collected from Islamabad; text from the Pakistani constitution, parliamentary debates, and political talk shows; and three focus group discussions with the local residents. A nexus analysis of the data (Hult 2018) was carried out to see the extent of correspondence among the three data sets. The findings revealed that English, Urdu, and Arabic remain the most visible languages (respectively) in the LL of Islamabad, and the indigenous languages lack visibility. The macro-level language policies were also found to promote the three languages, deeming them necessary for the constitutional and ideological makeup of Pakistan. The residents, too, tended to favour the use of these languages in the LL of Islamabad, despite their demonstration of affection for their native languages. The findings of the study have serious implications for the Pakistani indigenous languages, and indicate a need for inclusive language policies and awareness initiatives to protect linguistic diversity in Pakistan.
Авторлар туралы
Turab Hussain
National University of Modern Languages
Хат алмасуға жауапты Автор.
Email: turabhussain@numl.edu.pk
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3317-3851
PhD linguistics scholar at National University of Modern Languages. He is the founder of Society for Endangered Languages Pakistan (SELP). Currently, he is serving as lecturer at Government Degree College for boys, Parachinar, and visiting lecturer at Khyber Medical University. His research interests include sociolinguistics, linguistic landscape, language policy, linguistic human rights, language endangerment and language revitalization
Islamabad, PakistanMuhammad Nasir
National University of Modern Languages
Email: mhnasir@numl.edu.pk
ORCID iD: 0009-0008-9170-2898
Assistant Professor of English at National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad. He earned his PhD in Linguistics from National University of Modern Languages in 2018 and has been teaching undergraduate and postgraduate linguistics courses since 2013. His research interests include sociolinguistics, multimodal discourse studies, ecolinguistics, and forensic linguistics.
Islamabad, PakistanAziz Ullah Khan
National University of Modern Languages
Email: azizkhan@numl.edu.pk
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-9422-8070
Assistant Professor of English at the National University of Modern Languages (NUML), Islamabad. He holds a PhD in Applied Linguistics from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests include sociolinguistics, language policy, and language practices. He has published research articles in international journals and contributed a book chapter to Global Perspectives on Language Education Policies (Routledge, 2018).
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