A COMPARATIVE MULTIDIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS OF LANGUAGE VARIATION IN CRIME PRESS REPORTING IN PAKISTANI AND BRITISH PRINT MEDIA

Abstract

Being a non-native variant of the language, Pakistani English exhibits each register's own linguistic characteristics. The multidimensional analysis of British and Pakistani criminal news reporting serves as the foundation for the current investigation. Prior research utilizing news reports from Pakistan did not concentrate on comparing data internally and outside. It has been noted that a few specific language elements of Pakistani news reporting have been examined. Register variation studies that lack internal and external comparability and are dependent on individual linguistic variables rather than co-occurring elements are deceptive, according to Biber (1988). The current study has found distinct statistical linguistic disparities between Pakistani crime press coverage and British news reportage after gathering equal corpora of both types of reporting from chosen newspapers.