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Title Lexical Borrowing and Semantic Change in Pakistani Weblogs: A Study of English-Urdu Inter-lingual Effects

Author(s) MUBEEN UL HAQ

Abstract For a long time, researchers have studied the link between English and Urdu, two languages that belong to two distinct ethnolinguistic groups. The primary focus of this research is to discover English terms in Urdu and vice versa that have either shifted meaning or veered away from their interpretations in the donor language, analyzing the language of weblogs. The descriptive-qualitative technique was used in this work along with quantitative data analysis to gauge the extent of core borrowings from English in the Urdu language. The data was obtained from 50 Urdu blogs and 50 English blogs to analyse lexical borrowing and semantic change along with data from a questionnaire with 200 respondents to analyse core borrowings. The data gathered was then analysed to determine semantically altered English and Urdu borrowed lexicon and the type of semantic change undergone. According to the discourse, there is a significant prevalence of English origin terms in Urdu and a considerable Urdu or South Asian Origin words in English, which are a result of borrowing. The findings of the study suggest that Urdu language takes more loan words from English which also portray semantic change. More studies can be carried out to determine the degree of lexical changes in everyday vocabulary outside of weblogs and the digital realm.

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Publication Date 2027-04-22

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