Abstract
Pakistan is a socially close-knit, multilingual society where a major
population is either bilingual or multilingual. A large population speaks local
languages as their mother tongue; Urdu as the national language and
educated Pakistanis also know English, which is language of academia. The
multilingual speakers switch from one language to another to achieve
communicative goals. The current paper takes a sociolinguistic approach to
investigating the use of code-switching as a communicative strategy to
achieve social goals including the construction of gender identity in informal
interaction between multilingual educated Sindhi women students of
University of Sindh, Jamshoro, in Pakistan, in their daily interaction to
construct the female gender identity. Drawing on the code-switching existing
theories of code-switching, this article focuses on the on the meaning and
interpret on shift in language as potential communicative tool. Using the
qualitative methodology, the findings reveal that majority of the students
preferred English language to construct gender identity.
Dr Panhwar Farida, Saima Murtaza Pandhiani, Ameer Ali Buriro. (2018) Code-switching And Gender Identity, The Women - Annual Research Journal of Gender Studies, Volume-10, Issue-1.
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