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A CONTRASTIVE ANALYSIS OF IDEATIONAL INTERPERSONAL AND TEXTUAL THEMES IN ENGLISH AND URDU

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http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).15      10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).15      Published : Jun 2022

A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu

Abstract

    The present study deals with metafunctional diversity of thematic relations i.e. ideational, interpersonal and textual in English and Urdu. The objectives are: (1) to describe the functional significance particular to thematic progression (McCabe, 1999) of thematic structures in the English and the Urdu texts, and (2) to discuss how effectively the English thematic structures have been translated into Urdu. The English text Things Fall Apart by Achebe(1994) and its Urdu translation, Bikharti Duniya byUllah (1991) have been annotated through the annotation scheme of the UAM Corpus Tool(O`Donnell, 2008). The annotated English and Urdu clauses are analyzed to discuss their the maticstructures. The results show that the functional significance and thematic progression patterns are identical, but because of the unmotivated displacement of themes, the translation choices become ambiguous.To resolve ambiguities, possible translation choices have been suggested.

    Thematic structures, Thematic Progression, Corpus, English, Urdu

    (1) Humaira Yaqub
    PhD Candidate, Department of Applied Linguistics, Government College University Faisalabad, Punjab, Pakistan.
    (2) Ansa Ahsan
    Lecturer, University of Gujrat, Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan
    (3) Mubashir Iqbal
    Lecturer, University of Narowal, Narowal, Punjab, Pakistan.
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APA

    APA : Yaqub, H., Ahsan, A., & Iqbal, M. (2022). A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu. Global Language Review, VII(II), 169 - 186. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).15

CHICAGO

    CHICAGO : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. 2022. "A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu." Global Language Review, VII (II): 169 - 186 doi: 10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).15

HARVARD

    HARVARD : YAQUB, H., AHSAN, A. & IQBAL, M. 2022. A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu. Global Language Review, VII, 169 - 186.

MHRA

    MHRA : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. 2022. "A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu." Global Language Review, VII: 169 - 186

MLA

    MLA : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. "A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu." Global Language Review, VII.II (2022): 169 - 186 Print.

OXFORD

    OXFORD : Yaqub, Humaira, Ahsan, Ansa, and Iqbal, Mubashir (2022), "A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu", Global Language Review, VII (II), 169 - 186

TURABIAN

    TURABIAN : Yaqub, Humaira, Ansa Ahsan, and Mubashir Iqbal. "A Contrastive Analysis of Ideational, Interpersonal and Textual Themes in English and Urdu." Global Language Review VII, no. II (2022): 169 - 186. https://doi.org/10.31703/glr.2022(VII-II).15