1. Semantic Knowledge Of Students Of Intermediate Level At Govt. Gordon College Rawalpindi And Its Effects On Selected Words Borrowed From English Into Urdu.
- Author
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Anjum, Jamshaid, Hassan, Saqlain, Bari, Hira, Bhatti, Faiza Ghayour, Sattar, Aisha, and Khattak, Muhammad Mudassar
- Abstract
The current study aims to examine the semantic knowledge of the selected English words borrowed in Urdu by the students of grade 12 in a selected classroom in Rawalpindi. Furthermore, the study tends to find out the effect of semantic knowledge on those selected English words borrowed in Urdu. Data for this study has been collected through a questionnaire comprising 20 English words borrowed in Urdu selected for the examination. A classroom of grade 12 consisting of 20 students both male and female aged 16-18 years has been selected. The range of denotative meanings of the borrowed words has been recorded using Google’s dictionary provided by Oxford Languages. The semantic knowledge of the participants about these words has been calculated based on responses given by the students. The effect of the semantic knowledge of the participants on these borrowed English words has also been calculated mathematically. Thematic Analysis is used to investigate commonalities in the responses of the participants. Bloomfield’s theory of Semantic changes has been utilized to see the semantic changes taking place in the words. The analysis of the data has revealed that the average semantic knowledge of the participants is 37.05% and this has made the borrowed words suffer an average semantic loss of 51.3%. Further, the analysis has shown that the borrowed words with more denotative range suffer more semantic loss and the participants have less semantic knowledge and vice versa. The current study can pave the way to find out how the borrowed words can be saved from undergoing semantic loss when they are used by the natives of the loan language. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Published
- 2024