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Title English As Linguistic Capital in Pakistani Job Market: A Communicative Competence Perspective.

Author(s) Ali Anwer

Abstract Due to global corporate culture and emerging business trends, communication has become very important for the employees involved in management of different types. This rising trend has influenced Pakistani corporate sector as well. However, in Pakistani job market and corporate set-ups, proficiency in English alone is taken as competence in communication skills; whereas, other important aspects of communicative competence have been overlooked. there is a lack of adequate research from the point of view of Linguistics. Moreover, the research studies that have been carried out concerning Pakistani job market are from the point of view of Management and Organizational Behavior and none from the linguistic perspective. The current research is an attempt to find out the relationship between English as linguistic capital as part of Communicative Competence and employees’ job performance via job satisfaction and promotion in Private Corporate Sector Organizations of Pakistan. As theoretical framework for this study, a hybrid model has been established by combining the model of communicative competence by Celce-Murcia (2007) and the model of types of Capital by Bourdieu (1986). Hybrid model of communicative competence includes competence in five areas viz. Socio Cultural, Discourse, Linguistic, Formulaic and Interactional. The current study considers competence in English as Linguistic competence that serves as Linguistic Capital. To see the effect of communicative competence on the employees’ performance, i.e., job satisfaction and promotion, both quantitative and qualitative approaches have been used. For the quantitative data, two questionnaires have been developed whereas qualitative data has been gathered through semistructured interviews. A sample size of 235 respondents was used from tertiary level corporate organizations; this included 110 respondents from sales organizations including beverages, garments and electronic industries. From services sector, the sample included 125 respondents from telecom, banking, and hotel industries. Results from the study clearly indicate that there is a direct link between employees’ communicative competence (as indicated in the hybrid model) and their job performance and job satisfaction. Moreover, competence in English serves as Linguistic capital in corporate sector organizations as it plays a decisive role in appointments and professional progression. Keywords: Communicative Competence, Linguistic Capital, job performance, job satisfaction,

Type Thesis/Dissertation PhD

Faculty Languages

Department English

Language English

Publication Date 2023-04-07

Subject PhD English Linguistics

Publisher PhD English (GS)

Contributor(s) Dr. Aneela Gill

Format PDF

Identifier PhD

Source PhD

Relation PhD

Coverage PhD

Rights PhD

Category PhD English Linguistics Thesis

Description PhD English Linguistics